Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Singleton is a misconcept in OOP unless it's used as a misconcepted paradigm for application development.
Anonymous
Three things should never be seen in the process of being created: laws, sausage, and software.
Anonymous
Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
Conway's Law
Development has two outputs... Code & Bugs
Anonymous
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
Edsger Dijkstra
Never underestimate the disparity between developer excitement and user apathy.
Anonymous
You think you know when you can learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
Alan J. Perlis
We're even wrong about which mistakes we're making.
Carl Winfeld
[The common definition of estimate is] "An estimate is the most optimistic prediction that has a non-zero probability of coming true" . . .
Tom DeMarco
Accepting this definition leads irrevocably toward a method called what's-the-earliest- date-by-which-you-can't-prove-you-won't-be- finished estimating.
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.
Pablo Picasso