Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
In software, the most beautiful code, the most beautiful functions, and the most beautiful programs are sometimes not there at all.
Jon Bentley
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".
Alan J. Perlis
Testing like the TSA.
David Heinemeier Hansson on testing too much
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.
Donald Knuth
Good software, like wine, takes time.
Joel Spolsky
What I cannot build, I do not understand.
Richard Feynman
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Hofstadter's Law
You can't eliminate problems, but you can make trades to get problems that you prefer over the ones you have now.
Eric Sink’s Axiom of Software Development
I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn't show up in a Unix directory listing.
Oktal