Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There are 10 types of people. Those who can read ternary, those who can't and those who mistake it for binary.
Anonymous
Never memorize what you can look up in books.
Albert Einstein
All programmers are optimists.
Frederick Brooks
Documentation is like term insurance: It satisfies because almost no one who subscribes to it depends on its benefits.
Alan J. Perlis
If you've seen one picture of the Mandelbrot Set, you've seen them all.
Bill Karwin
Often it is the means that justify the ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
Alan J. Perlis
C++ : Where friends have access to your private members.
Gavin Russell Baker
Whatever code we hack, be it programming language, poetic language, math or music, curves or colourings, we create the possibility of new things entering the world. Not always great things, or even good things, but new things.
McKenzie Wark in "A hacker Manifesto":02
Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from a rigged demonstration.
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