Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
A programmer that is 10 times better than another will probably be happy making only 3 times as much.
Paul Graham
The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working.
John Ousterhout
It is not the computer's fault that Maxwell's equations are not adequate to design the electric motor.
Alan J. Perlis
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late."
Seymour Cray
Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven.
Charles Petzold
I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn't show up in a Unix directory listing.
Oktal
If you can't explain something to a six-year-old, you really don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein
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
Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
Jamie Zawinski
What I cannot build, I do not understand.
Richard Feynman