Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
Alan J. Perlis
Good enough is neither.
Jim Spivey
We better hurry up and start coding, there are going to be a lot of bugs to fix.
Anonymous
A programmer that is 10 times better than another will probably be happy making only 3 times as much.
Paul Graham
Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.
Martin Fowler
Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs.
James Gosling
Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
Stan Kelly-Bootle
I think there's a world market for about five computers.
Thomas J Watson Senior, 1945
If you can't explain something to a six-year-old, you really don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
Alan Kay