Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Don't worry if it doesn't work right. If everything did, you'd be out of a job.
Mosher's Law of Software Engineering
Once you've dressed and before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take at least one thing off.
Coco Chanel
Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
Alan J. Perlis
If we're supposed to work in Hex, why have we only got A fingers?
Anonymous
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
John Gall
The cybernetic exchange between man, computer and algorithm is like a game of musical chairs: The frantic search for balance always leaves one of the three standing ill at ease.
Alan J. Perlis
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Alan Kay
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Alan J. Perlis
Any technology that surpasses 50% penetration will never double again (in any number of months).
Peter Norvig's law
I know it doesn't sound like a big effort, but programmers are really, really lazy, and they like to minimize motion. They'd use feeder tubes if the Health Department would let them.
Steve Yegge