Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning.
Anonymous
C++ has its place in the history of programming languages. Just as Caligula has his place in the history of the Roman Empire.
Robert Firth
Like punning, programming is a play on words.
Alan J. Perlis
Computers don't introduce order anywhere as much as they expose opportunities.
Alan J. Perlis
I finally found a definition for "middleware". "Middleware" is the software nobody wants to pay for.
Chris Stone
The word “experienced” often refers to someone who’s gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have.
Laurence Gonzales
Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by 'they', I mean 'computers'. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)
Dave Barry
Change breaks the brittle.
Jan Houtema
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
Eric Raymond
Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
Conway's Law