Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Like a gas, software expands to fill its containing memory completely.
Anonymous
Starting a startup is hard, but having a 9 to 5 job is hard too, and in some ways a worse kind of hard.
Paul Graham
If it doesn't have to work, we can do it real quick.
Watts Humphrey
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
Nathaniel Borenstein
In computing, invariants are ephemeral.
Alan J. Perlis
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Larry Wall
* No technique works if it isn't used. * Ethics change with technology. * "F × S = k" the product of freedom and security is a constant.
Niven's laws
If you can't explain something to a six-year-old, you really don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein
The sooner we start coding fewer frameworks and more programs the sooner we’ll become better programmers.
Warped Java Guy Elementary Java Solutions
In the long run every program becomes rococo - then rubble.
Alan J. Perlis