Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Engineering is the art of doing with one dollar what any damn fool can do with two.
From Space Systems Failures by David M. Harland and Ralph D. Lorenz
You’ll spend far more time babysitting old technologies than implementing new ones.
Jason Hiner IT Dirty Secrets
Simplicity - the art of maximizing the amount of work not done - is essential.
Agile Manifesto
You're never done, you just run out of time.
Anonymous
Selecting a project due date before the requirements are properly gathered is like selecting which corner you want to paint yourself into, while simultaneously negating the doorway as a viable option.
Chris Ames
PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals.
Jon Ribbens
If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.
Alan Kay
When a professional race car driver races, his pulse gets lower and he relaxes. When I code it is the same thing.
Jun-ichiro Hagino
Every language has an optimization operator. In C++ that operator is ‘//’
Anonymous
In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way.
Alan J. Perlis