Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don't need millions of dollars of capitalization. You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your refrigerator, a cheap PC to work on and the dedication to go through with it.
John Carmack
Often it is the means that justify the ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
Alan J. Perlis
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Clark's law
In essence, let the market design the product.
Paul Graham
I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.
Anonymous
Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because you are better.
Anonymous
Never trust a programmer in a suit.
Anonymous
If it works, leave it alone — there's no need to understand it. If it fails, try to fix it — there's no time to understand it.
Bill Pfeifer
If you can't explain something to a six-year-old, you really don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein
C++ has its place in the history of programming languages. Just as Caligula has his place in the history of the Roman Empire.
Robert Firth