Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
When you want to do something differently from the rest of the world, it's a good idea to look into whether the rest of the world knows something you don't.
Anonymous
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.
Donald Knuth
It is not a language's weakness but its strengths that control the gradient of its change: Alas, a language never escapes its embryonic sac.
Alan J. Perlis
Team debugging: the act of intimidating a PC into doing for two people what it refuses to do for one.
Anonymous
When a programming language is created that allows programmers to program in simple English, it will be discovered that programmers cannot speak English.
Anonymous
A programmer never dies he just degrades gracefully.
Anonymous
When all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.
Anonymous
Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.
Alan J. Perlis
Working software is the primary measure of progress.
Agile Manifesto
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Alan J. Perlis
It is often easier to not do something dumb than it is to do something smart.
Anonymous