Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There are only 3 numbers of interest to a computer scientist: 1, 0 and infinity.
Anonymous
One Page Principle: A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.
Mark Ardis
Anyone who has a wife and small kids knows that programming belongs to the easy things in life.
Anonymous
All programs have at least one bug remaining and can be optimized by one byte. Thus, by mathematical induction, all programs can be reduced to one byte. And it won't work.
Anonymous
Make it correct,
Wes Dyer
make it clear,
make it concise,
make it fast.
In that order.
Rules for optimization:
Michael A Jackson
1. Don't do it.
2. (for experts only) Don't do it yet.
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, anything that can't go wrong will go wrong anyway.
Anonymous
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac Asimov
The object-oriented model makes it easy to build up programs by accretion. What this often means, in practice, is that it provides a structured way to write spaghetti code.
Paul Graham
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
Edsger Dijkstra