Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned. Many software tasks have this characteristic because of the sequential nature of debugging.
Fred Brooks
Simplicity - the art of maximizing the amount of work not done - is essential.
Agile Manifesto
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
Anonymous
If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.
Henry Spencere
The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.
John Carmack on software patents
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.
Edsger Dijkstra
The sooner we start coding fewer frameworks and more programs the sooner we’ll become better programmers.
Warped Java Guy Elementary Java Solutions
Change breaks the brittle.
Jan Houtema
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Alan J. Perlis