Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Processes and methodologies can make good servants but are poor masters.
Mark Dowd, John McDonald & Justin Schuh
The best things are simple, but finding these simple things is not simple.
Anonymous
When a professional race car driver races, his pulse gets lower and he relaxes.
Jun-ichiro Hagino
When I code it is the same thing.
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
P. J. Plauger
It is the user who should parameterize procedures, not their creators.
Alan J. Perlis
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
Alan J. Perlis
It's 5.50 a.m.... Do you know where your stack pointer is?
Anonymous
Confidence, n.: The feeling you have before you understand the situation.
Anonymous
You’ll spend far more time babysitting old technologies than implementing new ones.
Jason Hiner IT Dirty Secrets
Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
Alan J. Perlis