Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It's difficult to extract sense from strings, but they're the only communication coin we can count on.
Alan J. Perlis
Any technology that surpasses 50% penetration will never double again (in any number of months).
Peter Norvig's law
Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.
Murphy's Law
The best things are simple, but finding these simple things is not simple.
Anonymous
In software systems, it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
Alan J. Perlis
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Rich Cook
There is no programming language, no matter how structured, that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.
Larry Flon
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
John Wooden, basketball coach
It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.
Albert Einstein
I get as much enjoyment from trashing code as I do from scratching it out in the first place!
Anonymous