Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I think there's a world market for about five computers.
Thomas J Watson Senior, 1945
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
Alan J. Perlis
All programs have at least one bug remaining and can be optimized by one byte. Thus, by mathematical induction, all programs can be reduced to one byte. And it won't work.
Anonymous
It is easier to optimize correct code than to correct optimized code.
Anonymous
Rules for optimization:
Michael A Jackson
1. Don't do it.
2. (for experts only) Don't do it yet.
The best things are simple, but finding these simple things is not simple.
Anonymous
If at first you don't succeed, try/catch, try/catch again.
Anonymous
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
P. J. Plauger
C: a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language.
Anonymous
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
Alan J. Perlis