Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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
90% of everything is crap
Sturgeon's Revelation
Ready, fire, aim: the fast approach to software development.
Anonymous
Ready, aim, aim, aim, aim: the slow approach to software development.
The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.
Alan J. Perlis
Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.
Eagleson's Law
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
P. J. Plauger
This is important, and a little hard to understand. English is useful because it's a mess. Since English is a mess, it maps well onto the problem space, which is also a mess, which we call reality. Similarly, Perl was designed to be a mess (though in the nicest of possible ways).
Larry Wall
If architects built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Gerald Weinberg
Only in wealth, there is room for a bad idea.
Jasper van der Meer
The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working.
John Ousterhout