Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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
Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.
Linus Torvalds
Good enough is neither.
Jim Spivey
If you've seen one picture of the Mandelbrot Set, you've seen them all.
Bill Karwin
As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."
Alan J. Perlis
Rules for optimization:
Michael A Jackson
1. Don't do it.
2. (for experts only) Don't do it yet.
Programmers usually have good reasons for making bad decisions.
Anonymous
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Clark's law
The Floppy Disk Icon means "save" for a whole generation of people who have never seen one.
Scott Hanselman
Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.
Douglas Crockford