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
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Anonymous
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.
C.A.R. Hoare.
There's no test like production.
Anonymous
I've never written the best code I've ever written.
Anonymous
Good design adds value faster than it adds cost.
Thomas C. Gale
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Alan J. Perlis
Multi-threading is the art of screwing things up before, during or after something else.
Anonymous
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
Dave Parnas
The difference between theory and practice is smaller in theory than in practice.
Anonymous