Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Programming can be fun, so can cryptography; however they should not be combined.
Kreitzberg and Shneiderman
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.
Donald Knuth
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
Alan J. Perlis
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
Larry Wall
An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot.
Rich Julius
The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.
Gordon Bell
Working software is the primary measure of progress.
Agile Manifesto
There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.
Bill Gates
It is the user who should parameterize procedures, not their creators.
Alan J. Perlis
The computer reminds one of Lon Chaney -- it is the machine of a thousand faces.
Alan J. Perlis