Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter how fast it doesn't work.
Ravera's observation on premature optimization
C++ is an horrible language. Even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
Linus Torvalds
If you're going to break it, then break it good. Break everything. Get to the very front of the line. Don't like move up a couple of slots. That's pointless.
Anders Hejlsberg
There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.
Phil Karlton
One Page Principle: A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.
Mark Ardis
In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way.
Alan J. Perlis
Documentation is like sex. When it's good, it's fantastic. When it's bad, it's still better than nothing.
Anonymous
Only in wealth, there is room for a bad idea.
Jasper van der Meer
Java is C++ without the guns, knives, and clubs.
James Gosling
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?
Alan J. Perlis