Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.
Albert Einstein
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ?
Richard A. O'Keefe
If you use copy and paste while you're coding, you're probably committing a design error.
David Parnas
The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.
Anonymous
There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
Bjarne Stroustrup
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Alan J. Perlis
Optimization hinders evolution.
Alan J. Perlis
Sure, it's overkill. But you can never have too much overkill...
Anonymous
Software and cathedrals are much the same - first we build them, then we pray.
Anonymous
Rules for optimization:
Michael A Jackson
1. Don't do it.
2. (for experts only) Don't do it yet.