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    Funny programming related quotes

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      ucomesdag last edited by

      Stumbled upon Gerolf's signature which has a funny quote: [quote author="Gerolf" date="1303840092"]Programming Is Like Sex: One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life. (Michael Sinz)[/quote]

      So what about sharing your most funny and original programming (or Qt) related quote here.

      Ok, this one is not really programming related, more about the frustration that comes with it, but is my favorite motto for computer related problems :-)
      [quote]When your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a reason to buy a way nicer hammer.[/quote] It ain't mine but refers a bit to back in the days when I started programming and with a colleague we would smash old computers and monitors with a hammer to blow some steam off when frustrated :-)

      @Gerolf love your quote, it made me laugh a bit too loud this morning!

      Write “Qt”, not “QT” (QuickTime).

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        andre last edited by

        Ashleigh Brilliant:
        [quote]My opinions may have changed- but not the fact that I'm right.[/quote]

        Used it as my signature for years.

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          tobias.hunger last edited by

          I liked this one:

          bq. A real programmer can program C in any language.

          Don't remember who said it though.

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            ucomesdag last edited by

            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.

            Write “Qt”, not “QT” (QuickTime).

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              mgran last edited by

              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

              Project Manager - Qt Development Frameworks

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                Franzk last edited by

                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
                

                "Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people." -- W.C. Fields

                http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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                  task_struct last edited by

                  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

                  "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."

                  • Linu...
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                    situ117 last edited by

                    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.

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                      Eddy last edited by

                      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

                      Qt Certified Specialist
                      www.edalsolutions.be

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                        bergo.torino last edited by

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

                        It's compiling - mostly I'm slacking off ;)

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                          ivan last edited by

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

                          bq. Deleted code is debugged code. ~ Jeff Sickel

                          Ivan Čukić | ivan.cukic(at)kde.org | KDE e.V.
                          Qt Ambassador (from the old Nokia days)

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                            Franzk last edited by

                            [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/

                            "Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people." -- W.C. Fields

                            http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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                              bergo.torino last edited by

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

                              It's compiling - mostly I'm slacking off ;)

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                                Santosh Reddy last edited by

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

                                SS

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                                  ivan last edited by

                                  @Santosh nice!

                                  Ivan Čukić | ivan.cukic(at)kde.org | KDE e.V.
                                  Qt Ambassador (from the old Nokia days)

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                                    Franzk last edited by

                                    [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.

                                    "Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people." -- W.C. Fields

                                    http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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                                      ucomesdag last edited by

                                      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.

                                      Write “Qt”, not “QT” (QuickTime).

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                                        TobbY last edited by

                                        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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                                          ucomesdag last edited by

                                          "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

                                          Write “Qt”, not “QT” (QuickTime).

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