Funny programming related quotes

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

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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

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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/

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"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.

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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

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"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