Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There's more than one way to do it.
Larry Wall about Perl
Making something variable is easy. Controlling duration of constancy is the trick.
Alan J. Perlis
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
Make no mistake about it: Computers process numbers - not symbols. We measure our understanding (and control) by the extent to which we can arithmetize an activity.
Alan J. Perlis
The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.
Alan J. Perlis
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
John Gall
Writing in C or C++ is like running a chain saw with all the safety guards removed.
Bob Gray
Web Development is a lot like kickboxing: You have to watch your cookies.
Anonymous
You can have a negative percent chance of succeeding in a task. For example, if you have a -5% chance of succeeding, not only will you fail every time you make an attempt, you will also fail 1 in 20 times that you don't even try.
Anonymous
80 percent of my problems are simple logic errors. 80 percent of the remaining problems are pointer errors. The remaining problems are hard.
Mark Donner, IBM Watson Research Center