Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don't need millions of dollars of capitalization. You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your refrigerator, a cheap PC to work on and the dedication to go through with it.
John Carmack
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
Alan J. Perlis
A programmer started to cuss
Anonymous
Because getting to sleep was a fuss
As he lay there in bed
Looping 'round in his head
was: while(!asleep()) sheep++;
They did not know it was impossible, so they did it!
Mark Twain
If it is worth doing once, it is worth automating...
Anonymous
Wherever there is modularity there is the potential for misunderstanding: Hiding information implies a need to check communication.
Alan J. Perlis
I finally found a definition for "middleware". "Middleware" is the software nobody wants to pay for.
Chris Stone
Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points
Alan Kay
If you want to confuse your enemies, give them the source code. If you want to really confuse them, give them the documentation.
Anonymous
The structure of software systems tend to reflect the structure of the organization that produce them.
Douglas Crocford