Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.
Donald Knuth
Anyone who has a wife and small kids knows that programming belongs to the easy things in life.
Anonymous
God is a hacker, not an engineer. You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.
Francis Crick
If it doesn't have to work, we can do it real quick.
Watts Humphrey
Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by 'they', I mean 'computers'. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)
Dave Barry
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
Alan Kay
The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
This is important, and a little hard to understand. English is useful because it's a mess. Since English is a mess, it maps well onto the problem space, which is also a mess, which we call reality. Similarly, Perl was designed to be a mess (though in the nicest of possible ways).
Larry Wall
Deleted code is debugged code.
Jeff Sickel
There is no IRL, only AFK
Anonymous