Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Making something variable is easy. Controlling duration of constancy is the trick.
Alan J. Perlis
If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter how fast it doesn't work.
Ravera's observation on premature optimization
The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.
Anonymous
Now I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.
Martin Fowler
It is not the computer's fault that Maxwell's equations are not adequate to design the electric motor.
Alan J. Perlis
Documentation is like term insurance: It satisfies because almost no one who subscribes to it depends on its benefits.
Alan J. Perlis
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
E. W. Dijkstra
The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.
Gordon Bell
Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.
Douglas Crockford
There are only 3 numbers of interest to a computer scientist: 1, 0 and infinity.
Anonymous