Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
When you want to do something differently from the rest of the world, it's a good idea to look into whether the rest of the world knows something you don't.
Anonymous
They did not know it was impossible, so they did it!
Mark Twain
I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Easy things should be easy and hard things should be possible.
Larry Wall
Starting a startup is hard, but having a 9 to 5 job is hard too, and in some ways a worse kind of hard.
Paul Graham
Programming is not like being in the CIA; you don't get credit for being sneaky. It's more like advertising; you get lots of credit for making your connections as blatant as possible.
Steve McConnell on coupling from, "Code Complete."
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Anonymous
You’ll spend far more time babysitting old technologies than implementing new ones.
Jason Hiner IT Dirty Secrets
There's a fine line between being on the leading edge and being in the lunatic fringe.
Frank Armstrong
Don’t fix bugs later; fix them now.
Steve Maguire