Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Good software, like wine, takes time.
Joel Spolsky
Better train people and risk they leave – than do nothing and risk they stay.
Anonymous
The computer reminds one of Lon Chaney -- it is the machine of a thousand faces.
Alan J. Perlis
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, anything that can't go wrong will go wrong anyway.
Anonymous
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
Alan J. Perlis
Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by 'they', I mean 'computers'. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)
Dave Barry
I'll try to be nicer if you try to be smarter.
Assaf Nitzan
Rules for optimization:
Michael A Jackson
1. Don't do it.
2. (for experts only) Don't do it yet.
Good programmers never write what they can steal or borrow.
Jeff Atwood
Software isn't about methodologies, languages, or even operating systems. It is about working applications.
Christopher Baus