Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The goal of computation is the emulation of our synthetic abilities, not the understanding of our analytic ones.
Alan J. Perlis
I've never written the best code I've ever written.
Anonymous
[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.
Jamie Zawinski
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
If it doesn't have to work, we can do it real quick.
Watts Humphrey
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.
Robert Sewell
My programs don't have bugs, they just develop random features.
Anonymous
The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned. Many software tasks have this characteristic because of the sequential nature of debugging.
Fred Brooks
As soon as you agree on the number of spaces for indentation, no-one argues for tabs.
Alvar Lumberg
There is no IRL, only AFK
Anonymous