Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.
Anonymous
It takes an intelligent person to build something complex; it takes a genius to build something simple.
Anonymous
Profanity is the one language all programmers know best.
Anonymous
When you want to do something differently from the rest of the world, it's a good idea to look into whether the rest of the world knows something you don't.
Anonymous
In computing, invariants are ephemeral.
Alan J. Perlis
Whatever code we hack, be it programming language, poetic language, math or music, curves or colourings, we create the possibility of new things entering the world. Not always great things, or even good things, but new things.
McKenzie Wark in "A hacker Manifesto":02
The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
Edsger Dijkstra
You can have a negative percent chance of succeeding in a task. For example, if you have a -5% chance of succeeding, not only will you fail every time you make an attempt, you will also fail 1 in 20 times that you don't even try.
Anonymous
An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot.
Rich Julius
On the 7th day ... God began debugging.
Anonymous