Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The C Programming Language — A language which combines the flexibility of assembly language with the power of assembly language.
Anonymous
They won't tell you that they don't understand it; they will happily invent their way through the gaps and obscurities.
V.A. Vyssotsky on software programmers and their views on specifications
Java is a DSL to transform big Xml documents into long exception stack traces.
Scott Bellware
Every program is a part of some other program and rarely fits.
Alan J. Perlis
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
As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."
Alan J. Perlis
In software systems, it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
Alan J. Perlis
You might as well pay your customers 50K because they are just your QA.
Juixe TechKnow
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
Alan J. Perlis
It compiles. Ship it!
Anonymous