Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh
In computing, invariants are ephemeral.
Alan J. Perlis
What is the difference between a Turing machine and the modern computer? It's the same as that between Hillary's ascent of Everest and the establishment of a Hilton hotel on its peak.
Alan J. Perlis
Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
The more bizarre the behavior, the more stupid the mistake.
Ed's Law of Debugging
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
Hal Abelson
A good programmer looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.
Anonymous
In essence, let the market design the product.
Paul Graham
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn't show up in a Unix directory listing.
Oktal