Funny programming related quotes

[ucomesdag]

bq. Theory is when you know something, but it doesn't work. Practice is when something works, but you don't know why. Programmers combine theory and practice: Nothing works and they don't know why.

[mgran]

bq. “The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry.” (Henry Petroski)

/runs away

[Franzk]

More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason - including blind stupidity.

    — William A. Wulf

And one I didn't expect to encounter:

I (...) am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.

    — Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See

[task_struct]

My favorite is:

bq. "Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen."

• Edward V Berard

"Top 50 Programming Quotes of All Time":http://www.junauza.com/2010/12/top-50-programming-quotes-of-all-time.html

[situ117]

This is what Bjarne Stroustrup quoted on criticism of C++:

bq.
There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.

[Eddy]

I like this one :

bq. 3. "Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program."

• Linus Torvalds

[bergo.torino]

One of my favourites is: It's compiling - mostly I'm slacking of

[ivan]

bq. One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code. ~ Ken Thompson

bq. Deleted code is debugged code. ~ Jeff Sickel

[Franzk]

[quote author="bergo.torino" date="1308164714"]One of my favourites is: It's compiling - mostly I'm slacking of [/quote]
Important one to remember then is "xkcd comic 303":http://xkcd.org/303/

[bergo.torino]

"Let's document all the bugs we have so that they become features" :)

[Santosh Reddy]

bq. If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. ~Author Unknown

[ivan]

@Santosh nice!

[Franzk]

[quote author="Santosh Reddy" date="1308207477"]bq. If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. ~Author Unknown[/quote]
This quote originates from Edsger Dijkstra.

[ucomesdag]

The First Commandment of Technology.

The Commandments of Technology:

Thou shalt read the fucking manual.

Thou shalt treat technology with care and love.

Thou may covet thy neighbor's technology, but thou shalt not steal it.

[TobbY]

The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.
*Seymoure Cray *

I am a composer, horn player, and computer programmer.
*Robert Patterson *

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Programming

[ucomesdag]

"If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." --Marcus Alexander Brigstocke