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.
Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection. But that usually will create another problem.
David Wheeler
If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don't need millions of dollars of capitalization. You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your refrigerator, a cheap PC to work on and the dedication to go through with it.
John Carmack
All programming is an exercise in caching.
Terje Mathisen
Testing like the TSA.
David Heinemeier Hansson on testing too much
... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
Robert Firth
Ever spend a little time reading comp.lang.c++ ? That's really the best place to learn about the number of C++ users looking for a better language.
R. William Beckwith
The third version is the first version that doesn't suck.
Mike Simpson
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
Alan J. Perlis
Vi is a subset of evil.
Anonymous