Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Isaac Asimov
The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.
Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
If you can't explain something to a six-year-old, you really don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein
When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be as before -- except our fingertips will have been singed.
Alan J. Perlis
Whenever two programmers meet to criticize their programs, both are silent.
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
There is no programming language, no matter how structured, that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.
Larry Flon
Manually managing blocks of memory in C is like juggling bars of soap in a prison shower: It's all fun and games until you forget about one of them.
Anonymous
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
Alan J. Perlis
In effect, we conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells.
From SICP