Junauza recently published what they consider to be the Top 50 Programming Quotes of All Time.
I’ve you studied Computer Science of Software Engineering in school, you’ve likely read a lot of these but even if not, now’s a good time to check them out.
Here are a few of my favorite.
“Programming is like kicking yourself in the face, sooner or later your nose will bleed.”
– Kyle Woodbury“I invented the term ‘Object-Oriented’, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.”
– Alan Kay“I don’t care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine!”
– Vidiu Platon“The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late.”
– Seymour Cray“To iterate is human, to recurse divine.”
– L. Peter Deutsch
Read the rest here.
Ben Miller says
Fun read. My favorite:
“Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.”
– Edward V Berard
David Tate says
My favorites are the ones about Perl/Unix:
21. “It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.”
– Larry Wall
22. “Perl – The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.”
– Keith Bostic
24. “PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil, perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals.”
– Jon Ribbens