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
Arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
Alan Kay
How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity —in short: what mathematicians call "elegance"— are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
Nathaniel Borenstein
In software systems, it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
Alan J. Perlis
In essence, let the market design the product.
Paul Graham
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
If we can't fix it, then it ain't broke.
Jon Bentley
Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time.
Alan J. Perlis