Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It makes no sense to try to do what we can. We must do what is necessary.
Winston Churchill
Singleton is a misconcept in OOP unless it's used as a misconcepted paradigm for application development.
Anonymous
Giving pointers and threads to programmers is like giving whisky and car keys to teenagers.
P. J. O'Rourke
Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.
Linus Torvalds
A good programmer looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.
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
Motto for a research laboratory: What we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
Alan J. Perlis
The time machine's software will have a recursive main method.
Anonymous
Remember, a great way to avoid broken code is to have less of it. The code that you never write will work forever.
Russ Olsen
if you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don't know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I'm going to punish you by making you peel onions for 6 months in a submarine.
Joel Spolsky