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
Lines of code are only worth counting, when time has come to delete them.
Anonymous
The only constructive theory connecting neuroscience and psychology will arise from the study of software.
Alan J. Perlis
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
John Gall
Computers don't introduce order anywhere as much as they expose opportunities.
Alan J. Perlis
There is no IRL, only AFK
Anonymous
The latest new features in C++ are designed to fix the previously new features in C++.
David Jameson
An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.
Alan J. Perlis
It's 5.50 a.m.... Do you know where your stack pointer is?
Anonymous
Good judgement is the result of experience ... Experience is the result of bad judgement.
Fred Brooks