Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If you've seen one picture of the Mandelbrot Set, you've seen them all.
Bill Karwin
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
Alan J. Perlis
An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot.
Rich Julius
If it doesn't work, change the documentation.
Anonymous
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.
Donald Knuth
The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.
Tom Cargill
Over the centuries the Indians developed sign language for communicating phenomena of interest. Programmers from different tribes (FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL, SNOBOL, etc.) could use one that doesn't require them to carry a blackboard on their ponies.
Alan J. Perlis
Programmers usually have good reasons for making bad decisions.
Anonymous
Software and cathedrals are much the same - first we build them, then we pray.
Anonymous
It takes an intelligent person to build something complex; it takes a genius to build something simple.
Anonymous