“Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.”
— Edsger Dijkstra
Tagged #wisdom.
7 entries.
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“Talk is cheap. Show me the code.”
— Linus Torvalds
“There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.”
— Phil Karlton
“Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.”
— Harold Abelson
“Premature optimization is the root of all evil.”
— Donald Knuth
“The best error message is the one that never shows up.”
— Thomas Fuchs
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry