Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late."
Seymour Cray
Remember, a great way to avoid broken code is to have less of it. The code that you never write will work forever.
Russ Olsen
Don't have good ideas if you aren't willing to be responsible for them.
Alan J. Perlis
Computers don't introduce order anywhere as much as they expose opportunities.
Alan J. Perlis
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Isaac Asimov
Team debugging: the act of intimidating a PC into doing for two people what it refuses to do for one.
Anonymous
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Hofstadter's Law
All programmers are optimists.
Frederick Brooks
Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
Murphy's Law
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