Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
A startup now can be just a pair of 22 year old guys. A company like that can move much more easily than one with 10 people, half of whom have kids.
Paul Graham
There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
Bjarne Stroustrup
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
Alan J. Perlis
Giving pointers and threads to programmers is like giving whisky and car keys to teenagers.
P. J. O'Rourke
Often it is the means that justify the ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
Alan J. Perlis
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
Alan J. Perlis
Whatever code we hack, be it programming language, poetic language, math or music, curves or colourings, we create the possibility of new things entering the world. Not always great things, or even good things, but new things.
McKenzie Wark in "A hacker Manifesto":02
The more bizarre the behavior, the more stupid the mistake.
Ed's Law of Debugging
Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them.
Alan J. Perlis
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci