Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Change breaks the brittle.
Jan Houtema
Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.
Alan J. Perlis
Linux is only free if your time has no value.
Jamie Zawinski
One man's constant is another man's variable.
Alan J. Perlis
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.
Anonymous
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
[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
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso
Going from programming in Pascal to programming in C, is like learning to write in Morse code.
J.P. Candusso
Better train people and risk they leave – than do nothing and risk they stay.
Anonymous