Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
To iterate is human, to recurse divine.
L. Peter Deutsch
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh
It is often easier to not do something dumb than it is to do something smart.
Anonymous
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
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
If at first you don't succeed, try/catch, try/catch again.
Anonymous
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
Anonymous
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.
Alan J. Perlis
KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid
Anonymous
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