Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Every language has an optimization operator. In C++ that operator is ‘//’
Anonymous
The word “experienced” often refers to someone who’s gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have.
Laurence Gonzales
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If it's original, you'll have to ram it down their throats.
Howard Aiken
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.
Robert Sewell
Rules for optimization:
Michael A Jackson
1. Don't do it.
2. (for experts only) Don't do it yet.
Elegance is not optional.
Richard A. O'Keefe (from The Craft of Prolog)
If you require information, do not free memory containing the information.
MSDN
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
John Wooden, basketball coach
Documentation is like sex. When it's good, it's fantastic. When it's bad, it's still better than nothing.
Anonymous
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
Wernher von Braun