Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
Alan J. Perlis
Wherever there is modularity there is the potential for misunderstanding: Hiding information implies a need to check communication.
Alan J. Perlis
The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.
Tom Cargill
A well-written program is its own heaven; a poorly-written program is its own hell.
Tao of Programming
One man's constant is another man's variable.
Alan J. Perlis
Software isn't about methodologies, languages, or even operating systems. It is about working applications.
Christopher Baus
There are only two industries that refer to their customers as users: the computer industry and the drug trade.
Edward Tufte
I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn't show up in a Unix directory listing.
Oktal
Never underestimate the disparity between developer excitement and user apathy.
Anonymous
In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?
Anonymous