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Comment by saint_yossarian | Hacker News Reader

> But for a long time (and maybe even still), a hacker creed was "move fast and break things."

Was it? I thought Zuckerberg coined this horrible phrase.

He certainly popularized it (maybe coined it), but I've seen a lot of organizations and developers repeat that mantra.

Even without the specific words, look to product teams debating tradeoffs of going to market vs. waiting for better security controls. They're pushing for faster product release every time, at pretty much every org.

In any case, not really a hacker's creed. This has always been withinin the realm of corporations, especially Silicon Valley or adjacent.

MFABT is about survival. Don't hate the player, hate the game.

I'm not sure what you're responding to.

Por que no los dos? Some players seem very gleeful.

Don't know any hackers who talk like this. More "if you don't like the rules, play a different game"

I will absolutely hate the players that chose the game and designed the rules.

Sir, this is not /r/linkedinlunatics/

Hackers were moving fast and breaking things first. Faster than any corporation in fact. We didn't notice because their computers weren't powering anything useful. How do you think projects like GNU happened?

Ah yes, GNU. Well known for prioritizing speed and pragmatism over perfection. That's why Hurd ended up winning out over Linux. /s

Joel Spolsky.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

I love that article, but the words "move", "fast", and "break" don't appear in it.

I stand corrected! My memory is pretty vague on this, but I was pretty sure Joel had said something very close to this in one of his blog posts in the early 2000's, but it looks like Zuckerberg was the first one to use the phrase "move fast and break things":

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/move-fast-break-things-fac...

https://www.google.com/search?q=sposky%27s+worst+essay&sclie...

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