Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.
Douglas Crockford
Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
Conway's Law
Fast, Cheap, Reliable: Pick any two.
Anonymous
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
Robert X. Cringely
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
Cicero
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.
Robert Sewell
The eleventh commandment was "Thou Shalt Compute" or "Thou Shalt Not Compute" - I forget which.
Alan J. Perlis
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.
Alan J. Perlis
The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.
Tom Cargill
First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.
John Johnson