Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of people are interested in artificial limbs: they are missing one.
David Parnas
A computer scientist counts to ten: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 ...
Anonymous
Everyone else counts to ten: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Why did the Roman Empire collapse? What is Latin for office automation?
Alan J. Perlis
Better train people and risk they leave – than do nothing and risk they stay.
Anonymous
Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
Conway's Law
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Alan J. Perlis
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures.
Alan J. Perlis
Arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
Alan Kay
With regard to adding more programmers to get a project done faster - Nine people can't make a baby in a month.
Fred Brooks
If we can't fix it, then it ain't broke.
Jon Bentley