Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.
John Johnson
C++ is to C as Lung Cancer is to Lung.
Anonymous
Question: How does a large software project get to be one year late? Answer: One day at a time!
Fred Brooks
You can't communicate complexity, only an awareness of it.
Alan J. Perlis
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
What happens in the mind of a fine artist is nothing different from that going on in the mind of an expert coder. Both see and thrive in the quintessential nature of patterns.
Lawrence Mucheka
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read.
Pliny the Elder
The sooner you get behind in your work, the more time you have to catch up.
Anonymous
The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.
Grady Booch