Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
Alan J. Perlis
Rules for optimization:
Michael A Jackson
1. Don't do it.
2. (for experts only) Don't do it yet.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
People who find Wiki-markup too difficult to use and need a WYSIWYG-editor shouldn't be using a Wiki in the first place.
Anonymous
Every language has an optimization operator. In C++ that operator is ‘//’
Anonymous
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
The goal is to deliver clean code that works - now.
Kent Beck
Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time.
Alan J. Perlis
Behind Every Successful Coder, there'an even more successful De-Coder to understand that Code.
Anonymous
In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general -- and often we know it too quickly.
Alan J. Perlis