Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
Robert X. Cringely
There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.
Bill Gates
Let the code run free, if it needs to be debugged, it will come back.
Anonymous
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
Anonymous
Inside every complex program is a simple program trying to get out.
Anonymous
I finally found a definition for "middleware". "Middleware" is the software nobody wants to pay for.
Chris Stone
If architects built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
Gerald Weinberg
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
Edsger Dijkstra