Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
With regard to adding more programmers to get a project done faster - Nine people can't make a baby in a month.
Fred Brooks
Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle.
Alan J. Perlis
90% of everything is crap
Sturgeon's Revelation
Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it.
Seymour Cray on virtual memory
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't.
Alan J. Perlis
Tell me what you need and I'll tell you how to get along without it.
Anonymous
God could create the world in six days because he didn't have to make it compatible with the previous version.
Anonymous
If it doesn't have to work, we can do it real quick.
Watts Humphrey
There are only 3 numbers of interest to a computer scientist: 1, 0 and infinity.
Anonymous
In essence, let the market design the product.
Paul Graham