Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Behind Every Successful Coder, there'an even more successful De-Coder to understand that Code.
Anonymous
The Floppy Disk Icon means "save" for a whole generation of people who have never seen one.
Scott Hanselman
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
The sooner you get behind in your work, the more time you have to catch up.
Anonymous
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.
Donald Knuth
You're never done, you just run out of time.
Anonymous
Software is hard.
Donald Knuth
It is not the computer's fault that Maxwell's equations are not adequate to design the electric motor.
Alan J. Perlis
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
Anonymous
Like a gas, software expands to fill its containing memory completely.
Anonymous