Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Rules for optimization:
Michael A Jackson
1. Don't do it.
2. (for experts only) Don't do it yet.
On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that it's all learned.
Bruce Ediger
Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction: One, it's completely impossible. Two, it's possible, but it's not worth doing. Three, I said it was a good idea all along.
Arthur C. Clarke
Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.
Linus Torvalds
Good design adds value faster than it adds cost.
Thomas C. Gale
There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly.
Alan J. Perlis
Every language has an optimization operator. In C++ that operator is ‘//’
Anonymous
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
Edward V Berard
Giving pointers and threads to programmers is like giving whisky and car keys to teenagers.
P. J. O'Rourke