Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Rules for optimization:
Michael A Jackson
1. Don't do it.
2. (for experts only) Don't do it yet.
The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.
Anonymous
In essence, let the market design the product.
Paul Graham
I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of people are interested in artificial limbs: they are missing one.
David Parnas
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall
Bringing computers into the home won't change either one, but may revitalize the corner saloon.
Alan J. Perlis
Every language has an optimization operator. In C++ that operator is ‘//’
Anonymous
One who works with their hands is a laborer.
Anonymous
One who works with their hands and their mind is a craftsman.
One who works with their hands, mind and heart is an artist.
Whatever code we hack, be it programming language, poetic language, math or music, curves or colourings, we create the possibility of new things entering the world. Not always great things, or even good things, but new things.
McKenzie Wark in "A hacker Manifesto":02
A computer scientist counts to ten: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 ...
Anonymous
Everyone else counts to ten: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5