Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Compatibility means deliberately repeating other people's mistakes.
Anonymous
I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn't show up in a Unix directory listing.
Oktal
The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
Edsger Dijkstra
It is not the computer's fault that Maxwell's equations are not adequate to design the electric motor.
Alan J. Perlis
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh
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
No one hates software more than software developers.
Jeff Atwood
Behind Every Successful Coder, there'an even more successful De-Coder to understand that Code.
Anonymous
From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.
Peter Williams
... what society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil. Of course, the snake oil has the most impressive names — otherwise you would be selling nothing — like "Structured Analysis and Design", "Software Engineering", "Maturity Models", "Management Information Systems", "Integrated Project Support Environments" "Object Orientation" and "Business Process Re-engineering" (the latter three being known as IPSE, OO and BPR, respectively).
Edsger W. Dijkstra