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
If we'd asked the customers what they wanted, they would have said "faster horses".
Henry Ford
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
Alan J. Perlis
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams
I went to school to learn how to program software applications, which inevitably have bug defects. There was no course at my university on testing, debugging, profiling, or optimization. These things you have to learn on your own, usually in a tight deadline.
Juixe TechKnow
You can stand on the shoulders of giants OR a big enough pile of dwarfs, works either way.
Anonymous
Ever spend a little time reading comp.lang.c++ ? That's really the best place to learn about the number of C++ users looking for a better language.
R. William Beckwith
Team debugging: the act of intimidating a PC into doing for two people what it refuses to do for one.
Anonymous
Once you've dressed and before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take at least one thing off.
Coco Chanel
It takes an intelligent person to build something complex; it takes a genius to build something simple.
Anonymous