Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Three things should never be seen in the process of being created: laws, sausage, and software.
Anonymous
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
Every language has an optimization operator. In C++ that operator is ‘//’
Anonymous
Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein
For systems, the analogue of a face-lift is to add to the control graph an edge that creates a cycle, not just an additional node.
Alan J. Perlis
The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned. Many software tasks have this characteristic because of the sequential nature of debugging.
Fred Brooks
The C Programming Language — A language which combines the flexibility of assembly language with the power of assembly language.
Anonymous
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.
Bjarne Stroustrup
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
Paul Ehrlich
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
John Gall