Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Ready, fire, aim: the fast approach to software development.
Anonymous
Ready, aim, aim, aim, aim: the slow approach to software development.
I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn't show up in a Unix directory listing.
Oktal
I (...) am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.
Douglas Adams
80 percent of my problems are simple logic errors. 80 percent of the remaining problems are pointer errors. The remaining problems are hard.
Mark Donner, IBM Watson Research Center
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh
Good design adds value faster than it adds cost.
Thomas C. Gale
You’ll spend far more time babysitting old technologies than implementing new ones.
Jason Hiner IT Dirty Secrets
Only in wealth, there is room for a bad idea.
Jasper van der Meer
When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't.
Alan J. Perlis
A programmer started to cuss
Anonymous
Because getting to sleep was a fuss
As he lay there in bed
Looping 'round in his head
was: while(!asleep()) sheep++;