Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Any technology that surpasses 50% penetration will never double again (in any number of months).
Peter Norvig's law
I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of people are interested in artificial limbs: they are missing one.
David Parnas
Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from a rigged demonstration.
Anonymous
In software, the most beautiful code, the most beautiful functions, and the most beautiful programs are sometimes not there at all.
Jon Bentley
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Hofstadter's Law
Question: How does a large software project get to be one year late? Answer: One day at a time!
Fred Brooks
Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.
Eagleson's Law
[Perl] combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript.
Jamie Zawinski
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.
Bjarne Stroustrup
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse).
Eric Raymond