Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Computation has made the tree flower.
Alan J. Perlis
The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small number of ways.
Alan J. Perlis
Engineering is the art of doing with one dollar what any damn fool can do with two.
From Space Systems Failures by David M. Harland and Ralph D. Lorenz
Anyone who has a wife and small kids knows that programming belongs to the easy things in life.
Anonymous
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse).
Eric Raymond
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
Anonymous
You’ll spend far more time babysitting old technologies than implementing new ones.
Jason Hiner IT Dirty Secrets
Pasting code from the Internet into production code is like chewing gum found in the street.
Anonymous
Processes and methodologies can make good servants but are poor masters.
Mark Dowd, John McDonald & Justin Schuh