Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Enlightened trial and error outperforms the planning of flawless intellects.
David Kelly
The third version is the first version that doesn't suck.
Mike Simpson
Compatibility means deliberately repeating other people's mistakes.
Anonymous
We're even wrong about which mistakes we're making.
Carl Winfeld
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.
Nathaniel S Borenstein
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
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac Asimov
A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing.
Alan J. Perlis
Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.
Douglas Crockford
You can stand on the shoulders of giants OR a big enough pile of dwarfs, works either way.
Anonymous