Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Web Development is a lot like kickboxing: You have to watch your cookies.
Anonymous
Once you've dressed and before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take at least one thing off.
Coco Chanel
The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.
Alan J. Perlis
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
Alan J. Perlis
C++ is an horrible language. Even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
Linus Torvalds
The future will be like the past, because in the past the future was like the past.
About estimations
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
R. Buckminster Fuller
The Internet? Is that thing still around?
Homer Simpson
Question: How does a large software project get to be one year late? Answer: One day at a time!
Fred Brooks
You have to "solve" the problem once in order to clearly define it and then solve it again to create a solution that works.
Anonymous