Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Anyone who has a wife and small kids knows that programming belongs to the easy things in life.
Anonymous
When I have a specific goal in mind and a complicated piece of code to write, I spend my time making it happen rather than telling myself stories about it.
Steve Yegge
Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software.
Anonymous
Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
Michael Sinz
I went to school to learn how to program software applications, which inevitably have bug defects. There was no course at my university on testing, debugging, profiling, or optimization. These things you have to learn on your own, usually in a tight deadline.
Juixe TechKnow
If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.
Anonymous
Only Half of programming is coding. The other 90% is debugging.
Anonymous
There's no test like production.
Anonymous
Fight code entropy.
John Carmack
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