Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Software Engineering isn't rocket science ... it's harder.
Anonymous
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
Alan J. Perlis
Talk is cheap, show me the code!
Linus Torvalds
C(++) is a write-only, high-level assembler language.
Stefan Van Baelen
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Sir Arthur C Clarke
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
Alan J. Perlis
Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf.
Alan J. Perlis
Remember, a great way to avoid broken code is to have less of it. The code that you never write will work forever.
Russ Olsen
[The common definition of estimate is] "An estimate is the most optimistic prediction that has a non-zero probability of coming true" . . . Accepting this definition leads irrevocably toward a method called what's-the-earliest- date-by-which-you-can't-prove-you-won't-be- finished estimating.
Tom DeMarco
The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working.
John Ousterhout