Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In essence, let the market design the product.
Paul Graham
When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be as before -- except our fingertips will have been singed.
Alan J. Perlis
You can't eliminate problems, but you can make trades to get problems that you prefer over the ones you have now.
Eric Sink’s Axiom of Software Development
Computers don't introduce order anywhere as much as they expose opportunities.
Alan J. Perlis
In computing, invariants are ephemeral.
Alan J. Perlis
Designing software in a team is like writing poetry in a committee meeting.
Joel Spolsky
I Hate Programming.
Anonymous
I Hate Programming.
I Hate Programming.
It works!
I Love Programming.
A programmer that is 10 times better than another will probably be happy making only 3 times as much.
Paul Graham
If you're going to break it, then break it good. Break everything. Get to the very front of the line. Don't like move up a couple of slots. That's pointless.
Anders Hejlsberg
People who think, "Oh this is a one-off," need to be offed, or perhaps politely removed from the project.
George Neville-Neil