Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Good software, like wine, takes time.
Joel Spolsky
Anyone who has a wife and small kids knows that programming belongs to the easy things in life.
Anonymous
Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
Alan J. Perlis
It's difficult to extract sense from strings, but they're the only communication coin we can count on.
Alan J. Perlis
One programmer can do in one day what two programmers can do in two.
Anonymous
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
E.F. Schumacher
Good programmers learn more from "That's not what I expected!" than from getting it right the first time.
Anonymous
Human beings are not accustomed to being perfect, and few areas of human activity demand it. Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program.
Anonymous
The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned. Many software tasks have this characteristic because of the sequential nature of debugging.
Fred Brooks
Why did the Roman Empire collapse? What is Latin for office automation?
Alan J. Perlis