Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
A good system can't have a weak command language.
Alan J. Perlis
It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.
Albert Einstein
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Sir Arthur C Clarke
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Cory Doctorow
Good programmers learn more from "That's not what I expected!" than from getting it right the first time.
Anonymous
C++ is more of a rube-goldberg type thing full of high-voltages, large chain-driven gears, sharp edges, exploding widgets, and spots to get your fingers crushed. And because of it's complexity many (if not most) of it's users don't know how it works, and can't tell ahead of time what's going to cause them to loose an arm.
Grant Edwards
Let the code run free, if it needs to be debugged, it will come back.
Anonymous
God could create the world in six days because he didn't have to make it compatible with the previous version.
Anonymous
Startups almost never get it right the first time. Much more commonly you launch something, and no one cares. Don’t assume when this happens that you’ve failed. That’s normal for startups. But don’t sit around doing nothing. Iterate.
Paul Graham
You can write software expecting the hardware to be perfect, unfortunately hardware is not perfect and you have to fix it in code.
W. Giraud