Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.
Albert Einstein
Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from a rigged demonstration.
Anonymous
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
Brian Kernighan
Your code is both good and original. Unfortunately the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.
Anonymous
A programmer never dies he just degrades gracefully.
Anonymous
You have to "solve" the problem once in order to clearly define it and then solve it again to create a solution that works.
Anonymous
Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because you are better.
Anonymous
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
Shipping is a feature.
Richard Campbell
I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn't show up in a Unix directory listing.
Oktal