Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
A computer programmer is a device for turning coffee into bugs.
Bram Moolenaar
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.
Richard Pattis
It makes no sense to try to do what we can. We must do what is necessary.
Winston Churchill
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't.
Alan J. Perlis
C: a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language.
Anonymous
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that it's all learned.
Bruce Ediger
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
In software, the most beautiful code, the most beautiful functions, and the most beautiful programs are sometimes not there at all.
Jon Bentley
The best code is no code at all.
Anonymous
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh