Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Every language has an optimization operator. In C++ that operator is ‘//’
Anonymous
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If it's original, you'll have to ram it down their throats.
Howard Aiken
They won't tell you that they don't understand it; they will happily invent their way through the gaps and obscurities.
V.A. Vyssotsky on software programmers and their views on specifications
Any technology that surpasses 50% penetration will never double again (in any number of months).
Peter Norvig's law
Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from a rigged demonstration.
Anonymous
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Alan J. Perlis
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Alan J. Perlis
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, anything that can't go wrong will go wrong anyway.
Anonymous
If you can build it, your users can break it.
Anonymous
Good programmers learn more from "That's not what I expected!" than from getting it right the first time.
Anonymous