Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.
Jamie Zawinski
An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader.
From Paul Graham's "On Lisp"
The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is probably not important to mathematics.
Alan J. Perlis
The primary duty of an exception handler is to get the error out of the lap of the programmer and into the surprised face of the user. Provided you keep this cardinal rule in mind, you can't go far wrong.
Verity Stob
C trades a slap on the wrist at compile time for a knife in the back at run time.
Anonymous
Shipping is a feature.
Richard Campbell
The C Programming Language — A language which combines the flexibility of assembly language with the power of assembly language.
Anonymous
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late."
Seymour Cray
Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge for.
Chris Sacca