Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Good design adds value faster than it adds cost.
Thomas C. Gale
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac Asimov
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
Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.
Linus Torvalds
You have to "solve" the problem once in order to clearly define it and then solve it again to create a solution that works.
Anonymous
Starting a startup is hard, but having a 9 to 5 job is hard too, and in some ways a worse kind of hard.
Paul Graham
Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution.
Thomas' First Law
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
Alan J. Perlis
C++ is more of a rube-goldberg type thing full of high-voltages, large chain-driven gears, sharp edges, exploding widgets, and spots to get your fingers crushed. And because of it's complexity many (if not most) of it's users don't know how it works, and can't tell ahead of time what's going to cause them to loose an arm.
Grant Edwards
An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot.
Rich Julius