Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Alan J. Perlis
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
Edsger Dijkstra
The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.
Grady Booch
Let the code run free, if it needs to be debugged, it will come back.
Anonymous
You’ll spend far more time babysitting old technologies than implementing new ones.
Jason Hiner IT Dirty Secrets
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Shakespeare
It's not what the software does. It's what the user does.
Hugh Macleod
[The common definition of estimate is] "An estimate is the most optimistic prediction that has a non-zero probability of coming true" . . . Accepting this definition leads irrevocably toward a method called what's-the-earliest- date-by-which-you-can't-prove-you-won't-be- finished estimating.
Tom DeMarco
If we'd asked the customers what they wanted, they would have said "faster horses".
Henry Ford
In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way.
Alan J. Perlis