Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
Jeremy S. Anderson
If we'd asked the customers what they wanted, they would have said "faster horses".
Henry Ford
It’s hardware that makes a machine fast. It’s software that makes a fast machine slow.
Craig Bruce
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein
Software is either testable or detestable.
Anonymous
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read.
Pliny the Elder
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.
C.A.R. Hoare.
In my experience, one of the most significant problems in software development is assuming. If you assume a method will passed the right parameter value, the method will fail.
Paul M. Duvall
I think there's a world market for about five computers.
Thomas J Watson Senior, 1945