Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams
There are 10 types of people. Those who can read ternary, those who can't and those who mistake it for binary.
Anonymous
If it works, leave it alone — there's no need to understand it. If it fails, try to fix it — there's no time to understand it.
Bill Pfeifer
We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small.
Alan J. Perlis
I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years.
Tony (C.A.R.) Hoare
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Hofstadter's Law
We will never run out of things to program as long as there is a single program around.
Alan J. Perlis
Let the code run free, if it needs to be debugged, it will come back.
Anonymous
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall
Use four digits. A new millenium is coming.
Jon Bentley (1976)