Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Rules for optimization:
Michael A Jackson
1. Don't do it.
2. (for experts only) Don't do it yet.
I think there's a world market for about five computers.
Thomas J Watson Senior, 1945
To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program.
Alan J. Perlis
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams
If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.
Anonymous
All real programmers know C of course.
Jeff Atwood
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
Multi-threading is the art of screwing things up before, during or after something else.
Anonymous
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall
They did not know it was impossible, so they did it!
Mark Twain