Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There's a fine line between being on the leading edge and being in the lunatic fringe.
Frank Armstrong
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
Users are a terrible thing. Systems would be infinitely more stable without them.
Michael T. Nygard.
Good software, like wine, takes time.
Joel Spolsky
All programmers are optimists.
Frederick Brooks
The future will be like the past, because in the past the future was like the past.
About estimations
"It depends" is the answer to all good software engineering questions, but to be a good software engineer, you should know on what it depends, and why.
Anonymous
Interfaces keep things tidy, but don't accelerate growth: Functions do.
Alan J. Perlis
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
Alan J. Perlis
Engineering is the art of doing with one dollar what any damn fool can do with two.
From Space Systems Failures by David M. Harland and Ralph D. Lorenz