Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity —in short: what mathematicians call "elegance"— are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
Alan J. Perlis
Testing like the TSA.
David Heinemeier Hansson on testing too much
Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
Michael Sinz
If you can build it, your users can break it.
Anonymous
You want a dot operator in PHP?
Matthew Leffler
eval(str_replace('.', '->', $code_with_dot_operator))
Computer programmers don't byte, they nibble a bit.
Anonymous
It takes an intelligent person to build something complex; it takes a genius to build something simple.
Anonymous
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.
Donald Knuth
C++ is an horrible language. Even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
Linus Torvalds