Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
You're never done, you just run out of time.
Anonymous
As soon as you agree on the number of spaces for indentation, no-one argues for tabs.
Alvar Lumberg
Only in wealth, there is room for a bad idea.
Jasper van der Meer
A good system can't have a weak command language.
Alan J. Perlis
Good software, like wine, takes time.
Joel Spolsky
Fast, Cheap, Reliable: Pick any two.
Anonymous
There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.
Bill Gates
Why did the Roman Empire collapse? What is Latin for office automation?
Alan J. Perlis
Make no mistake about it: Computers process numbers - not symbols. We measure our understanding (and control) by the extent to which we can arithmetize an activity.
Alan J. Perlis
Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven.
Charles Petzold