Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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
One does not learn computing by using a hand calculator, but one can forget arithmetic.
Alan J. Perlis
It's not what the software does. It's what the user does.
Hugh Macleod
There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly.
Alan J. Perlis
Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
Michael Sinz
Saying that Java is good because it works on all platforms is like saying anal sex is good because it works on all genders.
Anonymous
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
Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning.
Anonymous
The more bizarre the behavior, the more stupid the mistake.
Ed's Law of Debugging
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence.
Edsger Dijkstra