Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
A programmer that is 10 times better than another will probably be happy making only 3 times as much.
Paul Graham
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.
Donald Knuth
The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is probably not important to mathematics.
Alan J. Perlis
If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don't need millions of dollars of capitalization. You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your refrigerator, a cheap PC to work on and the dedication to go through with it.
John Carmack
Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.
Cory Doctorow
Software Engineering isn't rocket science ... it's harder.
Anonymous
Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time.
Alan J. Perlis
You can't communicate complexity, only an awareness of it.
Alan J. Perlis
I (...) am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.
Douglas Adams
Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.
Douglas Crockford