Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter how fast it doesn't work.
Ravera's observation on premature optimization
I don't care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine!
Ovidiu Platon
Hardware is the part of a system you can kick. Software is the one you can only curse at.
Anonymous
Think of it! With VLSI we can pack 100 ENIACS in 1 sq. cm.
Alan J. Perlis
The sooner we start coding fewer frameworks and more programs the sooner we’ll become better programmers.
Warped Java Guy Elementary Java Solutions
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall
Don't fix it if it ain't broke presupposes that you can't improve something that works reasonably well already. If the world's inventors had believed this, we'd still be driving Model A Fords and using outhouses.
H. W. Kenton
Code is everything I thought poetry was, back when we were in school. Clean, expressive, urgent, all-encompassing. Fourteen lines can open up to fill the available universe.
Richard Powers
For systems, the analogue of a face-lift is to add to the control graph an edge that creates a cycle, not just an additional node.
Alan J. Perlis
Only Half of programming is coding. The other 90% is debugging.
Anonymous