Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop.
Alan J. Perlis
Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning.
Anonymous
One man's constant is another man's variable.
Alan J. Perlis
Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
Alan J. Perlis
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.
Donald Knuth
It takes an intelligent person to build something complex; it takes a genius to build something simple.
Anonymous
It seems to me you can program with discipline or you can program with bondage and discipline. You can't avoid the discipline either way, but bondage appeals to some people.
Patrick Logan
In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?
Anonymous
Only in wealth, there is room for a bad idea.
Jasper van der Meer
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer