Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
"It depends" is the answer to all good software engineering questions, but to be a good software engineer, you should know on what it depends, and why.
Anonymous
Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.
Larry Bossidy
The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.
Alan J. Perlis
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
Hal Abelson
Vi is a subset of evil.
Anonymous
UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.
Dennis Ritchie
I think there's a world market for about five computers.
Thomas J Watson Senior, 1945
An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.
Alan J. Perlis
The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working.
John Ousterhout
If your bug has a one in a million chance of happening, it'll happen next tuesday.
Anonymous