Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Optimization hinders evolution.
Alan J. Perlis
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
Paul Ehrlich
The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.
Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.
Gordon Bell
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.
Bjarne Stroustrup
Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.
Alan J. Perlis
When I have a specific goal in mind and a complicated piece of code to write, I spend my time making it happen rather than telling myself stories about it.
Steve Yegge
It is not the computer's fault that Maxwell's equations are not adequate to design the electric motor.
Alan J. Perlis
Process is no substitute for synaptic activity.
Jeff DeLuca
Never memorize what you can look up in books.
Albert Einstein