Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Hofstadter's Law
Wherever there is modularity there is the potential for misunderstanding: Hiding information implies a need to check communication.
Alan J. Perlis
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
Cicero
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
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
Alan J. Perlis
One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.
Alan J. Perlis
There's no test like production.
Anonymous
In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Better train people and risk they leave – than do nothing and risk they stay.
Anonymous
In software systems, it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
Alan J. Perlis