Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.
Bill Gates
Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
Alan J. Perlis
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.
Josh Billings
A well-written program is its own heaven; a poorly-written program is its own hell.
Tao of Programming
80 percent of my problems are simple logic errors. 80 percent of the remaining problems are pointer errors. The remaining problems are hard.
Mark Donner, IBM Watson Research Center
God is a hacker, not an engineer. You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
Francis Crick
Going from programming in Pascal to programming in C, is like learning to write in Morse code.
J.P. Candusso
One programmer can do in one day what two programmers can do in two.
Anonymous
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
If you've seen one picture of the Mandelbrot Set, you've seen them all.
Bill Karwin