Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive down below.
John Dryden
In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general -- and often we know it too quickly.
Alan J. Perlis
A startup now can be just a pair of 22 year old guys. A company like that can move much more easily than one with 10 people, half of whom have kids.
Paul Graham
A programmer never dies he just degrades gracefully.
Anonymous
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.
Pablo Picasso
The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
The reason we plan ahead is so that we don't have to do anything right now.
Anonymous
If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don't need millions of dollars of capitalization. You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your refrigerator, a cheap PC to work on and the dedication to go through with it.
John Carmack
All programmers are optimists.
Frederick Brooks
A programmer started to cuss
Anonymous
Because getting to sleep was a fuss
As he lay there in bed
Looping 'round in his head
was: while(!asleep()) sheep++;