Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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
Hardware is the part of a system you can kick. Software is the one you can only curse at.
Anonymous
There is no programming language, no matter how structured, that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.
Larry Flon
Question: How does a large software project get to be one year late? Answer: One day at a time!
Fred Brooks
You’ll spend far more time babysitting old technologies than implementing new ones.
Jason Hiner IT Dirty Secrets
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
John Gall
Design bugs are often subtle and occur by evolution with early assumptions being forgotten as new features or uses are added to a system.
Fernando J. Corbató
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
Edward V Berard
If our customers wanted a product that worked that way, tell them to purchase a product that works that way.
Anonymous
Users are a terrible thing. Systems would be infinitely more stable without them.
Michael T. Nygard.