Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.
Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
When in doubt, leave it out.
Joshua Bloch
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
Eric Raymond
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.
Alan J. Perlis
Talk is cheap, show me the code!
Linus Torvalds
Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by 'they', I mean 'computers'. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)
Dave Barry
For systems, the analogue of a face-lift is to add to the control graph an edge that creates a cycle, not just an additional node.
Alan J. Perlis
We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small.
Alan J. Perlis
Rules for optimization:
Michael A Jackson
1. Don't do it.
2. (for experts only) Don't do it yet.
One programmer can do in one day what two programmers can do in two.
Anonymous