Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.
Donald Knuth
If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small number of ways.
Alan J. Perlis
Code is never finished, only abandoned.
Anonymous
Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.
Douglas Crockford
C is to programming as Latin is to literature.
Anonymous
Startups almost never get it right the first time. Much more commonly you launch something, and no one cares. Don’t assume when this happens that you’ve failed. That’s normal for startups. But don’t sit around doing nothing. Iterate.
Paul Graham
Code never lies, comments sometimes do.
Ron Jeffries
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Rich Cook
There are only two industries that refer to their customers as users: the computer industry and the drug trade.
Edward Tufte
Any fool can use a computer. Many do.
Ted Nelson