Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Good software, like wine, takes time.
Joel Spolsky
Whatever code we hack, be it programming language, poetic language, math or music, curves or colourings, we create the possibility of new things entering the world. Not always great things, or even good things, but new things.
McKenzie Wark in "A hacker Manifesto":02
The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.
Anonymous
In the long run every program becomes rococo - then rubble.
Alan J. Perlis
Arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
Alan Kay
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
Andy Rooney
There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly.
Alan J. Perlis
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
Alan J. Perlis
The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned. Many software tasks have this characteristic because of the sequential nature of debugging.
Fred Brooks
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
Alan J. Perlis