Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
Alan J. Perlis
Never underestimate the disparity between developer excitement and user apathy.
Anonymous
I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.
Anonymous
[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
Software is hard.
Donald Knuth
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.
Donald Knuth
The reason we plan ahead is so that we don't have to do anything right now.
Anonymous
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Hanlon's Razor
Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software.
Anonymous
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.
Alan J. Perlis