Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
What I cannot build, I do not understand.
Richard Feynman
Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained.
Tao Of Programming
A computer scientist counts to ten: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 ...
Anonymous
Everyone else counts to ten: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
When it comes to code it never pays to rush.
Marick's Law
Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George S. Patton
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
There are 10 types of people. Those who can read ternary, those who can't and those who mistake it for binary.
Anonymous
Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
Alan J. Perlis
There are only 3 numbers of interest to a computer scientist: 1, 0 and infinity.
Anonymous
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Clark's law