Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In essence, let the market design the product.
Paul Graham
It makes no sense to try to do what we can. We must do what is necessary.
Winston Churchill
Talk is cheap, show me the code!
Linus Torvalds
The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.
John Carmack on software patents
You have to "solve" the problem once in order to clearly define it and then solve it again to create a solution that works.
Anonymous
Code is never finished, only abandoned.
Anonymous
The more bizarre the behavior, the more stupid the mistake.
Ed's Law of Debugging
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh
No one hates software more than software developers.
Jeff Atwood
An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.
Alan J. Perlis