Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Starting a startup is hard, but having a 9 to 5 job is hard too, and in some ways a worse kind of hard.
Paul Graham
Writing in C or C++ is like running a chain saw with all the safety guards removed.
Bob Gray
As soon as you agree on the number of spaces for indentation, no-one argues for tabs.
Alvar Lumberg
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
Alan J. Perlis
God is Real, unless declared Integer.
Anonymous
Python's syntax succeeds in combining the mistakes of Lisp and Fortran. I do not construe that as progress.
Larry Wall
My assertion that we can do better with computer languages is a persistent belief and fond hope, but you'll note I don't actually claim to be either rational or right. Except when it's convenient.
Larry Wall
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Isaac Asimov
What I cannot build, I do not understand.
Richard Feynman
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
Alan Kay