Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Shipping is a feature.
Richard Campbell
No code is faster than no code.
Anonymous
Question: How does a large software project get to be one year late? Answer: One day at a time!
Fred Brooks
People who think, "Oh this is a one-off," need to be offed, or perhaps politely removed from the project.
George Neville-Neil
If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.
Alan Kay
Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.
Eagleson's Law
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Rich Cook
I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of people are interested in artificial limbs: they are missing one.
David Parnas
Only Half of programming is coding. The other 90% is debugging.
Anonymous
Elegance is not optional.
Richard A. O'Keefe (from The Craft of Prolog)