Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Good software, like wine, takes time.
Joel Spolsky
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
Software is hard.
Donald Knuth
If you can't explain something to a six-year-old, you really don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein
Testing like the TSA.
David Heinemeier Hansson on testing too much
Like wine, the mastery of programming matures with time. But, unlike wine, it gets sweeter in the process.
Lawrence Mucheka
A good programmer looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.
Anonymous
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage
We better hurry up and start coding, there are going to be a lot of bugs to fix.
Anonymous
You can stand on the shoulders of giants OR a big enough pile of dwarfs, works either way.
Anonymous