Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Jesus saves but only Buddha makes incremental backups.
Anonymous
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Alan J. Perlis
Think twice before you start programming or you will program twice before you start thinking.
Anonymous
Computation has made the tree flower.
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
God did not create the world in seven days; for six days he screwed around and then pulled an all-nighter.
Anonymous
Make something fool-proof and someone will make a better fool.
Anonymous
The best writing is rewriting.
E. B. White
It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.
Larry Wall
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
R. Buckminster Fuller