Funny programming related quotes

[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