Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr
UNIX is user friendly. It just picks whom it wants to be friends with.
Anonymous
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
Fight code entropy.
John Carmack
Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable.
Alan J. Perlis
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Cory Doctorow
Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.
Larry Bossidy
Any set of procedures, no matter how well intentioned or useful, that are too difficult to follow, will be circumvented.
Ravera's First Law of System Administration
If it doesn't work, change the documentation.
Anonymous
There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
Bjarne Stroustrup