Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Fast, Cheap, Reliable: Pick any two.
Anonymous
Good software, like wine, takes time.
Joel Spolsky
C++ is to C as Lung Cancer is to Lung.
Anonymous
Software Engineering isn't rocket science ... it's harder.
Anonymous
Going from programming in Pascal to programming in C, is like learning to write in Morse code.
J.P. Candusso
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse).
Eric Raymond
The cybernetic exchange between man, computer and algorithm is like a game of musical chairs: The frantic search for balance always leaves one of the three standing ill at ease.
Alan J. Perlis
If we believe in data structures, we must believe in independent (hence simultaneous) processing. For why else would we collect items within a structure? Why do we tolerate languages that give us the one without the other?
Alan J. Perlis
Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
Conway's Law
I hate code, and I want as little of it in our product as possible.
Jack Diederich