Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
Hal Abelson
Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them.
Alan J. Perlis
Enlightened trial and error outperforms the planning of flawless intellects.
David Kelly
The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.
John Carmack on software patents
Deleted code is debugged code.
Jeff Sickel
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If it's original, you'll have to ram it down their throats.
Howard Aiken
It compiles. Ship it!
Anonymous
Think twice before you start programming or you will program twice before you start thinking.
Anonymous
"It depends" is the answer to all good software engineering questions, but to be a good software engineer, you should know on what it depends, and why.
Anonymous
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
Alan J. Perlis