Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I think there's a world market for about five computers.
Thomas J Watson Senior, 1945
The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.
Anonymous
Every language has an optimization operator. In C++ that operator is ‘//’
Anonymous
If you require information, do not free memory containing the information.
MSDN
if you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don't know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I'm going to punish you by making you peel onions for 6 months in a submarine.
Joel Spolsky
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.
Edsger Dijkstra
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.
Kent Beck
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
They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
Janet Reno
The real money isn't in the software. It's in the service you build with that software.
Jeff Atwood