Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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
... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
Robert Firth
Easy things should be easy and hard things should be possible.
Larry Wall
When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be as before -- except our fingertips will have been singed.
Alan J. Perlis
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
Dave Parnas
Just don't create a file called -rf.
Larry Wall
If you're going to break it, then break it good. Break everything. Get to the very front of the line. Don't like move up a couple of slots. That's pointless.
Anders Hejlsberg
A programmer that is 10 times better than another will probably be happy making only 3 times as much.
Paul Graham
Singleton is a misconcept in OOP unless it's used as a misconcepted paradigm for application development.
Anonymous
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
Alan J. Perlis