Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
90% of everything is crap
Sturgeon's Revelation
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?
Alan J. Perlis
Better train people and risk they leave – than do nothing and risk they stay.
Anonymous
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Cory Doctorow
C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog.
Steve Taylor
Jesus saves but only Buddha makes incremental backups.
Anonymous
Programmers usually have good reasons for making bad decisions.
Anonymous
You have to "solve" the problem once in order to clearly define it and then solve it again to create a solution that works.
Anonymous
Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to measure progress. Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can you imagine the grandeur and scope of a program that would take as long?
Alan J. Perlis
Enlightened trial and error outperforms the planning of flawless intellects.
David Kelly