Quotes

Here is a list of my favourite quotes. Most of them are programming related.

"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler"

Albert Einstein

"Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it."

Alan Kay

"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute."

Abelson & Sussman

"The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases."

Jon Bentley & Doug McIlroy

"The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague."

Edsger Dijkstra

"Simplicity is the key to brilliance."

Bruce Lee