Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.
Tom Cargill
People who deal with bits should expect to get bitten.
Jon Bentley
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?
Alan J. Perlis
Giving pointers and threads to programmers is like giving whisky and car keys to teenagers.
P. J. O'Rourke
Like punning, programming is a play on words.
Alan J. Perlis
If it doesn't have to work, we can do it real quick.
Watts Humphrey
The sooner you get behind in your work, the more time you have to catch up.
Anonymous
A programmer that is 10 times better than another will probably be happy making only 3 times as much.
Paul Graham
It is often easier to not do something dumb than it is to do something smart.
Anonymous
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Rich Cook