Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It compiles. Ship it!
Anonymous
* No technique works if it isn't used. * Ethics change with technology. * "F × S = k" the product of freedom and security is a constant.
Niven's laws
It makes no sense to try to do what we can. We must do what is necessary.
Winston Churchill
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
John Wooden, basketball coach
You can't solve social problems through technical means.
Anonymous
The difference between theory and practice is smaller in theory than in practice.
Anonymous
What you’ve described, “The bottleneck in writing code isn’t in the writing of the code, it’s in understanding and conceptualising what needs to be done,” is common to all highly abstract programming languages. Writing Haskell, for example, involves an hour of meditation followed by the emission of a fold expression.
Jonathan Feinberg
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
Anonymous
Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.
John Carmack
It's interface, not in your face.
Kai Krause