Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.
Donald Knuth
What you’ve described, “The bottleneck in writing code isn’t in the writing of the code, it’s in understanding and conceptualising what needs to be done,” is common to all highly abstract programming languages. Writing Haskell, for example, involves an hour of meditation followed by the emission of a fold expression.
Jonathan Feinberg
The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs / minute
Thom Holwerda
We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small.
Alan J. Perlis
Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.
Keith Bostic
Development has two outputs... Code & Bugs
Anonymous
My assertion that we can do better with computer languages is a persistent belief and fond hope, but you'll note I don't actually claim to be either rational or right. Except when it's convenient.
Larry Wall
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.
Alan J. Perlis
If you can build it, your users can break it.
Anonymous