Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
Alan J. Perlis
An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.
Alan J. Perlis
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
I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn't show up in a Unix directory listing.
Oktal
Like a gas, software expands to fill its containing memory completely.
Anonymous
They did not know it was impossible, so they did it!
Mark Twain
XML is like violence - if it's not working for you, you're not using enough of it.
Anonymous
To most Java developers, Ruby/Rails is like a mistress. Ruby/Rails is young, new, and exciting; but eventually we go back to old faithful, dependable, and employable Java with some new tricks and idioms and we are the better programmer for it.
Juixe TechKnow
Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.
Keith Bostic
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, anything that can't go wrong will go wrong anyway.
Anonymous