Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Hanlon's Razor
A computer programmer is a device for turning coffee into bugs.
Bram Moolenaar
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ?
Richard A. O'Keefe
Systems have sub-systems and sub-systems have sub- systems and so on ad infinitum - which is why we're always starting over.
Alan J. Perlis
Code never lies, comments sometimes do.
Ron Jeffries
It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it.
Steve McConnell
No code is faster than no code.
Anonymous
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.
Donald Knuth
Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from a rigged demonstration.
Anonymous
A C program is like a fast dance on a newly waxed dance floor by people carrying razors.
Waldi Ravens