My favourite programming quotes

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by mericano1 • 13 years ago

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ryanaghdam• 13 years ago

"Premature optimization is the source of all evil" -Donald Knuth

This one reminds me of The Story of Mel <http://catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html>;

mericano12• 13 years ago

the link seems to be broken

jacques_chester• 13 years ago

Martin Fowler's quote seems to be a riff on Weinberg's various folksy observations in The Psychology of Computer Programming -- though maybe Weinberg picked it up from elsewhere.

The Alan Kay quote is a possibly apocryphal story; there are varying accounts[1] (and see [2]).

No list of programming quotes is complete without the Epigrams of Alan Perlis[3].

[1] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?HeInventedTheTerm [2] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?HeDidntInventTheTerm [3] http://www.cs.yale.edu/quotes.html

mericano12• 13 years ago

great list there, thanks. It's in my bookmarks now :)

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