Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Question: How does a large software project get to be one year late? Answer: One day at a time!
Fred Brooks
Once you've dressed and before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take at least one thing off.
Coco Chanel
I've never written the best code I've ever written.
Anonymous
Tell me what you need and I'll tell you how to get along without it.
Anonymous
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
John Wooden, basketball coach
Often it is the means that justify the ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
Alan J. Perlis
It makes no sense to try to do what we can. We must do what is necessary.
Winston Churchill
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.
Grady Booch
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Cory Doctorow