Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.
John Johnson
Compatibility means deliberately repeating other people's mistakes.
Anonymous
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Anonymous
It is not a language's weakness but its strengths that control the gradient of its change: Alas, a language never escapes its embryonic sac.
Alan J. Perlis
Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them.
Alan J. Perlis
I hate code, and I want as little of it in our product as possible.
Jack Diederich
Like a gas, software expands to fill its containing memory completely.
Anonymous
In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way.
Alan J. Perlis
[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.
Jamie Zawinski
The real money isn't in the software. It's in the service you build with that software.
Jeff Atwood