Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It makes no sense to try to do what we can. We must do what is necessary.
Winston Churchill
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
You can stand on the shoulders of giants OR a big enough pile of dwarfs, works either way.
Anonymous
In my experience, one of the most significant problems in software development is assuming. If you assume a method will passed the right parameter value, the method will fail.
Paul M. Duvall
The best code is no code at all.
Anonymous
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
Alan J. Perlis
One programmer can do in one day what two programmers can do in two.
Anonymous
Make no mistake about it: Computers process numbers - not symbols. We measure our understanding (and control) by the extent to which we can arithmetize an activity.
Alan J. Perlis
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.
Nathaniel S Borenstein
Just don't create a file called -rf.
Larry Wall