Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr
Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software.
Anonymous
Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.
Martin Fowler
People who think, "Oh this is a one-off," need to be offed, or perhaps politely removed from the project.
George Neville-Neil
Writing in C or C++ is like running a chain saw with all the safety guards removed.
Bob Gray
I finally found a definition for "middleware". "Middleware" is the software nobody wants to pay for.
Chris Stone
There is no IRL, only AFK
Anonymous
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
Development has two outputs... Code & Bugs
Anonymous
Pasting code from the Internet into production code is like chewing gum found in the street.
Anonymous