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Offline Infinityexists

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best Programming/technical quotes
« on: April 20, 2012, 03:37:12 pm »
Here is the few programming quotes i loved most :p



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Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.
-- Dick Brandon


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Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
-- Donald Knuth


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ALL programs are poems, it's just that not all programmers are poets.
-- Jonathan Guthrie


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MS-DOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight - it took over ten years of careful development.
-- D Meggins


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I'm a hacker and proud - and no, that does not mean computer criminal, and if you think it does - go do your homework.
-- Eric S Raymond


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Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.
-- FSF T-shirt


please share your favorites :)


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Re: best Programming/technical quotes
« Reply #1 on: April 20, 2012, 03:40:33 pm »
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It's not a bug, it's an undocumented feature.

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“C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg”. -Bjarne Stroustrup

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“There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don’t believe this to be a coincidence.” – Jeremy S. Anderson

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How many computer programmers does it take to change a light bulb?
None, that is a hardware problem!

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Given enough time, I can meet any software deadline.
« Last Edit: April 20, 2012, 03:54:18 pm by dataspy »
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.
-Kerouac