Programming Quotes

Posted on 10 January 2007 in
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I found this site with loads of funny and appropriate (for any programmer or developer) quotes on it.

Programming Quotations

There are some absolutely fantastic quotes on it…

• Once a new technology starts rolling, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

  ^{Stewart Brand}

• C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows your whole leg off.

  ^{Bjarne Stroustrup}

• Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs, while the Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning.

  ^Anon

• One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs

  ^{Robert Firth}