Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
Alan Kay
Fast, Cheap, Reliable: Pick any two.
Anonymous
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Anonymous
The evolution of languages: FORTRAN is a non-typed language. C is a weakly typed language. Ada is a strongly typed language. C++ is a strongly hyped language.
Ron Sercely
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.
Nathaniel S Borenstein
They did not know it was impossible, so they did it!
Mark Twain
From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.
Peter Williams
"It depends" is the answer to all good software engineering questions, but to be a good software engineer, you should know on what it depends, and why.
Anonymous
You start writing code, I'll go see what the customer wants
Anonymous
Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution.
Thomas' First Law