Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Starting a startup is hard, but having a 9 to 5 job is hard too, and in some ways a worse kind of hard.
Paul Graham
Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis
j++; // increment j
Anonymous
90% of everything is crap
Sturgeon's Revelation
Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.
Eagleson's Law
A good system can't have a weak command language.
Alan J. Perlis
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
Jeremy S. Anderson
Programmers usually have good reasons for making bad decisions.
Anonymous
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
Alan J. Perlis
A C program is like a fast dance on a newly waxed dance floor by people carrying razors.
Waldi Ravens