Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Before software should be reusable, it should be usable.
Ralph Johnson
Better train people and risk they leave – than do nothing and risk they stay.
Anonymous
In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?
Anonymous
God could create the world in six days because he didn't have to make it compatible with the previous version.
Anonymous
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.
Donald Knuth
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
XML is like violence - if it's not working for you, you're not using enough of it.
Anonymous
There's a fine line between being on the leading edge and being in the lunatic fringe.
Frank Armstrong
There are only two industries that refer to their customers as users: the computer industry and the drug trade.
Edward Tufte
You think you know when you can learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
Alan J. Perlis