Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Software is hard.
Donald Knuth
Engineering is the art of doing with one dollar what any damn fool can do with two.
From Space Systems Failures by David M. Harland and Ralph D. Lorenz
Question: How does a large software project get to be one year late? Answer: One day at a time!
Fred Brooks
Fast, Cheap, Reliable: Pick any two.
Anonymous
Vi is a subset of evil.
Anonymous
There's no test like production.
Anonymous
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
Alan J. Perlis
There is no IRL, only AFK
Anonymous
Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits LISP programmers to abandon bra and fig-leaf.
Alan J. Perlis