Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.
Alan J. Perlis
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
Freeman Dyson
Editing is a rewording activity.
Alan J. Perlis
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
Paul Ehrlich
My programs don't have bugs, they just develop random features.
Anonymous
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein
Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection. But that usually will create another problem.
David Wheeler
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
Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.
John Carmack
There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
Bjarne Stroustrup