Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.
Alan J. Perlis
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read.
Pliny the Elder
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.
Donald Knuth
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
Wernher von Braun
The debate rages on: is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?
Alan J. Perlis
80 percent of my problems are simple logic errors. 80 percent of the remaining problems are pointer errors. The remaining problems are hard.
Mark Donner, IBM Watson Research Center
If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.
Henry Spencere
Deleted code is debugged code.
Jeff Sickel
We're even wrong about which mistakes we're making.
Carl Winfeld
It's interface, not in your face.
Kai Krause