Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
To iterate is human, to recurse divine.
L. Peter Deutsch
Better train people and risk they leave – than do nothing and risk they stay.
Anonymous
Profanity is the one language all programmers know best.
Anonymous
Three things should never be seen in the process of being created: laws, sausage, and software.
Anonymous
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.
Donald Knuth
It's not what the software does. It's what the user does.
Hugh Macleod
With regard to adding more programmers to get a project done faster - Nine people can't make a baby in a month.
Fred Brooks
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Cory Doctorow
Processes and methodologies can make good servants but are poor masters.
Mark Dowd, John McDonald & Justin Schuh
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention in human history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
Mitch Ratcliffe