Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
John Wooden, basketball coach
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 we'd asked the customers what they wanted, they would have said "faster horses".
Henry Ford
If we're supposed to work in Hex, why have we only got A fingers?
Anonymous
The real money isn't in the software. It's in the service you build with that software.
Jeff Atwood
If you don't think you're doing great things, you're probably right.
Anonymous
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Hanlon's Razor
The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.
John Carmack on software patents
We will never run out of things to program as long as there is a single program around.
Alan J. Perlis
Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven.
Charles Petzold