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My favourite programming quotes

• ryanaghdam 14y 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&#62 http://catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html>
  • mericano1 14y ago
    the link seems to be broken
• jacques_chester 14y 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 http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?HeInventedTheTerm [2] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?HeDidntInventTheTerm http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?HeDidntInventTheTerm [3] http://www.cs.yale.edu/quotes.html http://www.cs.yale.edu/quotes.html
  • mericano1 14y ago
    great list there, thanks. It's in my bookmarks now :)