Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
Bill Gates
Question: How does a large software project get to be one year late? Answer: One day at a time!
Fred Brooks
It's not what the software does. It's what the user does.
Hugh Macleod
If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
Alan J. Perlis
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
Software is either testable or detestable.
Anonymous
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.
Pablo Picasso
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac Asimov
There's a fine line between being on the leading edge and being in the lunatic fringe.
Frank Armstrong
In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.
Edsger W. Dijkstra