Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
When I have a specific goal in mind and a complicated piece of code to write, I spend my time making it happen rather than telling myself stories about it.
Steve Yegge
I don't care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine!
Ovidiu Platon
We're even wrong about which mistakes we're making.
Carl Winfeld
The structure of software systems tend to reflect the structure of the organization that produce them.
Douglas Crocford
The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.
Gordon Bell
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?
Alan J. Perlis
Java is a DSL to transform big Xml documents into long exception stack traces.
Scott Bellware
Software is either testable or detestable.
Anonymous
No one hates software more than software developers.
Jeff Atwood
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