Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I finally found a definition for "middleware". "Middleware" is the software nobody wants to pay for.
Chris Stone
There are only two industries that refer to their customers as users: the computer industry and the drug trade.
Edward Tufte
Software isn't about methodologies, languages, or even operating systems. It is about working applications.
Christopher Baus
The structure of software systems tend to reflect the structure of the organization that produce them.
Douglas Crocford
When you want to do something differently from the rest of the world, it's a good idea to look into whether the rest of the world knows something you don't.
Anonymous
Writing in C or C++ is like running a chain saw with all the safety guards removed.
Bob Gray
Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.
Alan J. Perlis
Don't fix it if it ain't broke presupposes that you can't improve something that works reasonably well already. If the world's inventors had believed this, we'd still be driving Model A Fords and using outhouses.
H. W. Kenton
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.
C.A.R. Hoare.
It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.
Larry Wall