Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
Alan J. Perlis
Software is hard.
Donald Knuth
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso
Rules for optimization:
Michael A Jackson
1. Don't do it.
2. (for experts only) Don't do it yet.
Whereas Europeans generally pronounce my name the right way ('Nick-louse Veert'), Americans invariably mangle it into 'Nickel's Worth.' This is to say that Europeans call me by name, but Americans call me by value.
Niklaus Wirth
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
Alan J. Perlis
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
Anonymous
Let the code run free, if it needs to be debugged, it will come back.
Anonymous
Good programmers never write what they can steal or borrow.
Jeff Atwood
Ready, fire, aim: the fast approach to software development.
Anonymous
Ready, aim, aim, aim, aim: the slow approach to software development.