Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
With regard to adding more programmers to get a project done faster - Nine people can't make a baby in a month.
Fred Brooks
The reason we plan ahead is so that we don't have to do anything right now.
Anonymous
I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.
Alan Kay
Jesus saves but only Buddha makes incremental backups.
Anonymous
Theory is when you know something, but it doesn't work. Practice is when something works, but you don't know why. Programmers combine theory and practice: Nothing works and they don't know why.
Anonymous
KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid
Anonymous
Arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
Alan Kay
There's no test like production.
Anonymous
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
Alan J. Perlis
Human beings are not accustomed to being perfect, and few areas of human activity demand it. Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program.
Anonymous