Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
You can stand on the shoulders of giants OR a big enough pile of dwarfs, works either way.
Anonymous
If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.
Henry Spencere
As soon as you agree on the number of spaces for indentation, no-one argues for tabs.
Alvar Lumberg
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein
The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned. Many software tasks have this characteristic because of the sequential nature of debugging.
Fred Brooks
Every language has an optimization operator. In C++ that operator is ‘//’
Anonymous
Question: How does a large software project get to be one year late? Answer: One day at a time!
Fred Brooks
We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small.
Alan J. Perlis
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
Jeremy S. Anderson