Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It's 5.50 a.m.... Do you know where your stack pointer is?
Anonymous
Process is no substitute for synaptic activity.
Jeff DeLuca
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
Alan J. Perlis
The real money isn't in the software. It's in the service you build with that software.
Jeff Atwood
Hardware is the part of a system you can kick. Software is the one you can only curse at.
Anonymous
The best things are simple, but finding these simple things is not simple.
Anonymous
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
From SICP
Rules for optimization:
Michael A Jackson
1. Don't do it.
2. (for experts only) Don't do it yet.
This is important, and a little hard to understand. English is useful because it's a mess. Since English is a mess, it maps well onto the problem space, which is also a mess, which we call reality. Similarly, Perl was designed to be a mess (though in the nicest of possible ways).
Larry Wall
It compiles. Ship it!
Anonymous