Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
A startup now can be just a pair of 22 year old guys. A company like that can move much more easily than one with 10 people, half of whom have kids.
Paul Graham
When it comes to code it never pays to rush.
Marick's Law
Like a gas, software expands to fill its containing memory completely.
Anonymous
An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader.
From Paul Graham's "On Lisp"
Multi-threading is the art of screwing things up before, during or after something else.
Anonymous
God did not create the world in seven days; for six days he screwed around and then pulled an all-nighter.
Anonymous
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
Alan J. Perlis
XML is like violence - if it's not working for you, you're not using enough of it.
Anonymous
If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don't need millions of dollars of capitalization. You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your refrigerator, a cheap PC to work on and the dedication to go through with it.
John Carmack
Think of it this way: threads are like salt, not like pasta. You like salt, I like salt, we all like salt. But we eat more pasta.
Larry McVoy