Friday, March 11, 2011

My favorite quotes related to software,programming

In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion - Author Unknown

Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable. - Ralph Johnson

A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street - Doug Linder

Programmers always confuse Halloween with Christmas because OCT 31 = DEC 25 - Author Unknown

There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works. - Alan J. Perlis

Real programmers don't comment their code. It was hard to write, it should be hard to understand - Author Unknown

I would like to change the world But I do not have source code - Author Unknown

Low-level programming is good for the programmer’s soul.- John Carmack

"Kevorkian Virus: helps your computer shut down whenever it wants to." - Author Unknown

"Cannot delete tmp150---3.tmp: There is not enough free disk space. Delete one or more files to free disk space, and then try again." - Author Unknown

I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn’t show up in a Unix directory listing.- Oktal

If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along wound destroy civilization. - Gerald Weinberg

My programs never have bugs, they just develop random features - Author Unknown

Programs for sale: fast, reliable, cheap - choose two. - Author Unknown

You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up. - C.A.R. Hoare

'Error, no keyboard ... press F1 to continue.' - Author Unknown