Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
Murphy's Law
An ideal world is left as an exercise to the reader.
From Paul Graham's "On Lisp"
If you can't explain something to a six-year-old, you really don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein
90% of everything is crap
Sturgeon's Revelation
The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working.
John Ousterhout
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
P. J. Plauger
One Page Principle: A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.
Mark Ardis
Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection. But that usually will create another problem.
David Wheeler
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
Anonymous
It's difficult to extract sense from strings, but they're the only communication coin we can count on.
Alan J. Perlis