Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.
Gordon Bell
Get into a rut early: Do the same process the same way. Accumulate idioms. Standardize. The only difference(!) between Shakespeare and you was the size of his idiom list - not the size of his vocabulary.
Alan J. Perlis
Never trust a programmer in a suit.
Anonymous
Computers don't introduce order anywhere as much as they expose opportunities.
Alan J. Perlis
Development has two outputs... Code & Bugs
Anonymous
Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction: One, it's completely impossible. Two, it's possible, but it's not worth doing. Three, I said it was a good idea all along.
Arthur C. Clarke
The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.
Tom Cargill
All programmers are optimists.
Frederick Brooks
Don’t fix bugs later; fix them now.
Steve Maguire
Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
Murphy's Law