Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
With regard to adding more programmers to get a project done faster - Nine people can't make a baby in a month.
Fred Brooks
God did not create the world in seven days; for six days he screwed around and then pulled an all-nighter.
Anonymous
Software and cathedrals are much the same - first we build them, then we pray.
Anonymous
As Will Rogers would have said, "There is no such thing as a free variable."
Alan J. Perlis
Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from a rigged demonstration.
Anonymous
An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.
Alan J. Perlis
I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.
Anonymous
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
Freeman Dyson
People who think, "Oh this is a one-off," need to be offed, or perhaps politely removed from the project.
George Neville-Neil
The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is probably not important to mathematics.
Alan J. Perlis