Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I've never written the best code I've ever written.
Anonymous
Saying that Java is good because it works on all platforms is like saying anal sex is good because it works on all genders.
Anonymous
Professionalism has no place in art, and hacking is art. Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.
Jamie Zawinski
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
Anonymous
Perhaps if we wrote programs from childhood on, as adults we'd be able to read them.
Alan J. Perlis
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
Edward V Berard
Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa.
Alan J. Perlis
If you require information, do not free memory containing the information.
MSDN
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.
Donald Knuth
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
Andy Rooney