Software Quotes

Maybe the best programmers aren't those who spectacularly solve crazy problems, but those who don't create them, which is much more silent.

Lena Herrmann

If there is anything I've learned from Linux, it's that projects have a life of their own, and you should not try to enforce your vision too strongly on them.

Linus Torvalds

Live fast, die old, and make very sure everyone knows you were there.

Alan Cox

If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'

Benjamin Carson

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.

Phil Karlton

What I took away from reading the Snowden documents was that if the NSA wants in to your computer, it's in. Period.

Bruce Schneier

Nothing works better than just improving your product.

Joel Spolsky

Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defence against complexity.

David Gelernter