Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
Alan Kay
Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.
Alan J. Perlis
You can write software expecting the hardware to be perfect, unfortunately hardware is not perfect and you have to fix it in code.
W. Giraud
Education is the process of learning more and more about less and less until one knows everything about nothing and is entitled to call oneself 'Doctor'.
Anonymous
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
Alan J. Perlis
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
Alan J. Perlis
The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working.
John Ousterhout
If our customers wanted a product that worked that way, tell them to purchase a product that works that way.
Anonymous
Documentation is like sex. When it's good, it's fantastic. When it's bad, it's still better than nothing.
Anonymous
You're never done, you just run out of time.
Anonymous