Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
What I cannot build, I do not understand.
Richard Feynman
If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter how fast it doesn't work.
Ravera's observation on premature optimization
80 percent of my problems are simple logic errors. 80 percent of the remaining problems are pointer errors. The remaining problems are hard.
Mark Donner, IBM Watson Research Center
Optimization hinders evolution.
Alan J. Perlis
Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning.
Anonymous
Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time.
Alan J. Perlis
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.
C.A.R. Hoare.
With regard to adding more programmers to get a project done faster - Nine people can't make a baby in a month.
Fred Brooks
Programming is an unnatural act.
Alan J. Perlis
In software systems, it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
Alan J. Perlis