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
Multi-threading is the art of screwing things up before, during or after something else.
Anonymous
God did not create the world in seven days; for six days he screwed around and then pulled an all-nighter.
Anonymous
In effect, we conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells.
From SICP
A programmer never dies he just degrades gracefully.
Anonymous
He who hasn't hacked assembly language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain.
John Moore
Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.
Eagleson's Law
Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.
Linus Torvalds
We're even wrong about which mistakes we're making.
Carl Winfeld
Good enough is neither.
Jim Spivey