Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late."
Seymour Cray
UNIX is user friendly. It just picks whom it wants to be friends with.
Anonymous
With regard to adding more programmers to get a project done faster - Nine people can't make a baby in a month.
Fred Brooks
One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.
Alan J. Perlis
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac Asimov
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
Anonymous
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
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
Edsger Dijkstra
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
Alan J. Perlis
Why did the Roman Empire collapse? What is Latin for office automation?
Alan J. Perlis