Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
Alan Kay
Pasting code from the Internet into production code is like chewing gum found in the street.
Anonymous
Python's syntax succeeds in combining the mistakes of Lisp and Fortran. I do not construe that as progress.
Larry Wall
Rules are for the obedience of the inexperienced and the guidance of the wise.
Anonymous
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
R. Buckminster Fuller
In computing, invariants are ephemeral.
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
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
And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is.
Larry Wall
Shipping is a feature.
Richard Campbell