Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.
Donald Knuth
Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection. But that usually will create another problem.
David Wheeler
A documented bug is not a bug; it is a feature.
James P. MacLennan
Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
Alan J. Perlis
C++ is an horrible language. Even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
Linus Torvalds
Blame doesn't fix bugs.
Anonymous
An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot.
Rich Julius
With all due respect John, I am the head of IT and I have it on good authority. If you type "Google" into Google, you can break the Internet.
Jen, "The IT Crowd"
If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter how fast it doesn't work.
Ravera's observation on premature optimization
Software and cathedrals are much the same - first we build them, then we pray.
Anonymous