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
If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some.
Alan J. Perlis
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso
In the long run every program becomes rococo - then rubble.
Alan J. Perlis
Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.
Alan J. Perlis
Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points
Alan Kay
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
Alan Kay
In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way.
Alan J. Perlis
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
Harlan Ellison
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
Edward V Berard