Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter how fast it doesn't work.
Ravera's observation on premature optimization
Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution set rather than the problem set?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Design bugs are often subtle and occur by evolution with early assumptions being forgotten as new features or uses are added to a system.
Fernando J. Corbató
Think of compilation as cooking. Dynamic typing means the steak is juicy and still a little red, like red meat is supposed to be. Static typing means you burnt it to a crisp.
Erik Naggum
The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs / minute
Thom Holwerda
We're even wrong about which mistakes we're making.
Carl Winfeld
C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog.
Steve Taylor
The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.
Gordon Bell
Going from programming in Pascal to programming in C, is like learning to write in Morse code.
J.P. Candusso
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
E. W. Dijkstra