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.
You can't eliminate problems, but you can make trades to get problems that you prefer over the ones you have now.
Eric Sink’s Axiom of Software Development
Some programmers, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use floating point arithmetic." Now they have 1.999999999997 problems.
Tom Scott
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
Dave Parnas
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Oswald Chambers
There is no programming language, no matter how structured, that will prevent programmers from making bad programs.
Larry Flon
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
Alan J. Perlis
Giving pointers and threads to programmers is like giving whisky and car keys to teenagers.
P. J. O'Rourke
An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot.
Rich Julius
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse).
Eric Raymond