Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
Murphy's Law
I (...) am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.
Douglas Adams
Only in wealth, there is room for a bad idea.
Jasper van der Meer
Three things should never be seen in the process of being created: laws, sausage, and software.
Anonymous
One man's constant is another man's variable.
Alan J. Perlis
Software is under a constant tension. Being symbolic it is arbitrarily perfectible; but also it is arbitrarily changeable.
Alan J. Perlis
One Page Principle: A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.
Mark Ardis
Every language has an optimization operator. In C++ that operator is ‘//’
Anonymous
I don't care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine!
Ovidiu Platon
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
Anonymous