Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It seems to me you can program with discipline or you can program with bondage and discipline. You can't avoid the discipline either way, but bondage appeals to some people.
Patrick Logan
The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.
Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Sir Arthur C Clarke
The best code is no code at all.
Anonymous
A startup now can be just a pair of 22 year old guys. A company like that can move much more easily than one with 10 people, half of whom have kids.
Paul Graham
Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process.
Alan J. Perlis
Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
George S. Patton
It is the user who should parameterize procedures, not their creators.
Alan J. Perlis
When I have a specific goal in mind and a complicated piece of code to write, I spend my time making it happen rather than telling myself stories about it.
Steve Yegge
Think of it! With VLSI we can pack 100 ENIACS in 1 sq. cm.
Alan J. Perlis