Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If architects built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Gerald Weinberg
UNIX is user friendly. It just picks whom it wants to be friends with.
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
Editing is a rewording activity.
Alan J. Perlis
You might as well pay your customers 50K because they are just your QA.
Juixe TechKnow
Software is hard.
Donald Knuth
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
Anonymous
An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.
Alan J. Perlis
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who can read binary, and those who can't.
Anonymous