Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.
Anonymous
When we write programs that "learn", it turns out that we do and they don't.
Alan J. Perlis
The difference between something that can go wrong and something that can’t possibly go wrong is that when something that can’t possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
Douglas Adams
When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.
Richard Pattis
Writing in C or C++ is like running a chain saw with all the safety guards removed.
Bob Gray
The third version is the first version that doesn't suck.
Mike Simpson
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.
Pablo Picasso
If it doesn't work, change the documentation.
Anonymous
People who find Wiki-markup too difficult to use and need a WYSIWYG-editor shouldn't be using a Wiki in the first place.
Anonymous
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