Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points
Alan Kay
Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.
John Carmack
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
Alan Kay
The proof of a system's value is its existence.
Alan J. Perlis
Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process.
Alan J. Perlis
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
From SICP
The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.
Larry Wall
In C, its easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it more difficult, but when you do, you'll blow your whole leg off.
Stroustrup
The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working.
John Ousterhout