Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.
Donald Knuth
Compatibility means deliberately repeating other people's mistakes.
Anonymous
If our customers wanted a product that worked that way, tell them to purchase a product that works that way.
Anonymous
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
Freeman Dyson
Computation has made the tree flower.
Alan J. Perlis
I will not be a lemming and follow the crowd over the cliff and into the C.
John Beidler
They did not know it was impossible, so they did it!
Mark Twain
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
Rick Osborne
Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.
Keith Bostic
The best code is no code at all.
Anonymous