Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I’ve finally learned what ‘upward compatible’ means. It means we get to keep all our old mistakes.
Dennie van Tassel
Rules are for the obedience of the inexperienced and the guidance of the wise.
Anonymous
Computers don't introduce order anywhere as much as they expose opportunities.
Alan J. Perlis
Fight code entropy.
John Carmack
Singleton is a misconcept in OOP unless it's used as a misconcepted paradigm for application development.
Anonymous
PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals.
Jon Ribbens
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
If C didn't exist, we would be programming in OBOL, PASAL or BASI
Anonymous
God is a hacker, not an engineer. You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
Francis Crick
Every dark corner you haven't explored with your flashlight is full of bugs.
Kent Beck and Martin Fowler