Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Often it is the means that justify the ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
Alan J. Perlis
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
The third version is the first version that doesn't suck.
Mike Simpson
It's difficult to extract sense from strings, but they're the only communication coin we can count on.
Alan J. Perlis
The real money isn't in the software. It's in the service you build with that software.
Jeff Atwood
Whatever code we hack, be it programming language, poetic language, math or music, curves or colourings, we create the possibility of new things entering the world. Not always great things, or even good things, but new things.
McKenzie Wark in "A hacker Manifesto":02
If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small number of ways.
Alan J. Perlis
If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.
Henry Spencere
80 percent of my problems are simple logic errors. 80 percent of the remaining problems are pointer errors. The remaining problems are hard.
Mark Donner, IBM Watson Research Center
A documented bug is not a bug; it is a feature.
James P. MacLennan