Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly.
Alan J. Perlis
Symmetry is a complexity-reducing concept (co-routines include subroutines); seek it everywhere.
Alan J. Perlis
Inside every complex program is a simple program trying to get out.
Anonymous
Rules for optimization:
Michael A Jackson
1. Don't do it.
2. (for experts only) Don't do it yet.
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late."
Seymour Cray
Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.
Alan J. Perlis
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.
Kent Beck
In the long run every program becomes rococo - then rubble.
Alan J. Perlis
Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
Alan J. Perlis
Pasting code from the Internet into production code is like chewing gum found in the street.
Anonymous