Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Singleton is a misconcept in OOP unless it's used as a misconcepted paradigm for application development.
Anonymous
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.
Donald Knuth
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
Harlan Ellison
You can't eliminate problems, but you can make trades to get problems that you prefer over the ones you have now.
Eric Sink’s Axiom of Software Development
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison
God is Real, unless declared Integer.
Anonymous
Like punning, programming is a play on words.
Alan J. Perlis
In the long run every program becomes rococo - then rubble.
Alan J. Perlis
Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++ ?
Richard A. O'Keefe
One who works with their hands is a laborer.
Anonymous
One who works with their hands and their mind is a craftsman.
One who works with their hands, mind and heart is an artist.