Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Think of all the psychic energy expended in seeking a fundamental distinction between "algorithm" and "program".
Alan J. Perlis
Rules for optimization:
Michael A Jackson
1. Don't do it.
2. (for experts only) Don't do it yet.
Change breaks the brittle.
Jan Houtema
Talk is cheap, show me the code!
Linus Torvalds
C trades a slap on the wrist at compile time for a knife in the back at run time.
Anonymous
Question: How does a large software project get to be one year late? Answer: One day at a time!
Fred Brooks
There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.
Bill Gates
A program without a loop and a structured variable isn't worth writing.
Alan J. Perlis
Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven.
Charles Petzold
The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is probably not important to mathematics.
Alan J. Perlis