Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It is the user who should parameterize procedures, not their creators.
Alan J. Perlis
You're never done, you just run out of time.
Anonymous
Good software, like wine, takes time.
Joel Spolsky
You have to "solve" the problem once in order to clearly define it and then solve it again to create a solution that works.
Anonymous
The function name should define everything the function does.
Anonymous
I finally found a definition for "middleware". "Middleware" is the software nobody wants to pay for.
Chris Stone
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Hofstadter's Law
Simplicity - the art of maximizing the amount of work not done - is essential.
Agile Manifesto
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
Dave Parnas
Startups almost never get it right the first time. Much more commonly you launch something, and no one cares. Don’t assume when this happens that you’ve failed. That’s normal for startups. But don’t sit around doing nothing. Iterate.
Paul Graham