Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive down below.
John Dryden
It's 5.50 a.m.... Do you know where your stack pointer is?
Anonymous
Wherever there is modularity there is the potential for misunderstanding: Hiding information implies a need to check communication.
Alan J. Perlis
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
Eric Raymond
Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.
Douglas Crockford
One Page Principle: A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.
Mark Ardis
Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
Stan Kelly-Bootle
What I cannot build, I do not understand.
Richard Feynman
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
Cicero