Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The Floppy Disk Icon means "save" for a whole generation of people who have never seen one.
Scott Hanselman
In the long run every program becomes rococo - then rubble.
Alan J. Perlis
The goal is to deliver clean code that works - now.
Kent Beck
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
E.F. Schumacher
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.
Bjarne Stroustrup
Education is the process of learning more and more about less and less until one knows everything about nothing and is entitled to call oneself 'Doctor'.
Anonymous
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Alan J. Perlis
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
Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven.
Charles Petzold
You’ll spend far more time babysitting old technologies than implementing new ones.
Jason Hiner IT Dirty Secrets