Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Making something variable is easy. Controlling duration of constancy is the trick.
Alan J. Perlis
The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.
Tom Cargill
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Larry Wall
If it doesn't have to work, we can do it real quick.
Watts Humphrey
You might as well pay your customers 50K because they are just your QA.
Juixe TechKnow
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
Wernher von Braun
A good system can't have a weak command language.
Alan J. Perlis
The computer is the ultimate polluter: its feces are indistinguish- able from the food it produces.
Alan J. Perlis
I will not be a lemming and follow the crowd over the cliff and into the C.
John Beidler
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought.
Maurice Wilkes