Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
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
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
Alan J. Perlis
Just don't create a file called -rf.
Larry Wall
You’ll spend far more time babysitting old technologies than implementing new ones.
Jason Hiner IT Dirty Secrets
The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.
Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George S. Patton
If we're supposed to work in Hex, why have we only got A fingers?
Anonymous
Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.
Alan J. Perlis
You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
Alan J. Perlis
Within a computer natural language is unnatural.
Alan J. Perlis