Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular.
Ken Thompson
A C program is like a fast dance on a newly waxed dance floor by people carrying razors.
Waldi Ravens
Rules for optimization:
Michael A Jackson
1. Don't do it.
2. (for experts only) Don't do it yet.
Testing like the TSA.
David Heinemeier Hansson on testing too much
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures.
Alan J. Perlis
if you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don't know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I'm going to punish you by making you peel onions for 6 months in a submarine.
Joel Spolsky
It’s hardware that makes a machine fast. It’s software that makes a fast machine slow.
Craig Bruce
Must be zero, or equal to MAPI_UNICODE. In either case, however, this parameter is ignored.
MSDN
The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working.
John Ousterhout
A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
Alan J. Perlis