Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Any technology that surpasses 50% penetration will never double again (in any number of months).
Peter Norvig's law
Design bugs are often subtle and occur by evolution with early assumptions being forgotten as new features or uses are added to a system.
Fernando J. Corbató
Question: How does a large software project get to be one year late? Answer: One day at a time!
Fred Brooks
I’ve finally learned what ‘upward compatible’ means. It means we get to keep all our old mistakes.
Dennie van Tassel
90% of everything is crap
Sturgeon's Revelation
'Goto' is always evil, like in 'goto school' or 'goto work'.
Anonymous
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Alan J. Perlis
We better hurry up and start coding, there are going to be a lot of bugs to fix.
Anonymous
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
John Gall
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
Edward V Berard