Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.
Alan Kay
Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
Michael Sinz
If it is worth doing once, it is worth automating...
Anonymous
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
Alan J. Perlis
Sure, it's overkill. But you can never have too much overkill...
Anonymous
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.
Alan J. Perlis
I get as much enjoyment from trashing code as I do from scratching it out in the first place!
Anonymous
When a professional race car driver races, his pulse gets lower and he relaxes.
Jun-ichiro Hagino
When I code it is the same thing.
I finally found a definition for "middleware". "Middleware" is the software nobody wants to pay for.
Chris Stone