Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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
The best writing is rewriting.
E. B. White
Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.
Alan J. Perlis
Talk is cheap, show me the code!
Linus Torvalds
Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
Conway's Law
Make it correct,
Wes Dyer
make it clear,
make it concise,
make it fast.
In that order.
One who works with their hands is a laborer.
Anonymous
One who works with their hands and their mind is a craftsman.
One who works with their hands, mind and heart is an artist.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
Amateur programmers think there are 1000 bytes in a kilobyte; Real Programmers know there are 1024 meters in a kilometer.
Anonymous
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