Thursday, April 2, 2009

Great (and funny) programming quotes...

... because they're so depressingly true.

Programming quotes

My favorite:
That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.

My second favorite:
There are only two industries that refer to their customers as "users".

Some other goodies:

  • And the users exclaimed with a laugh and a taunt: "It's just what we asked for but not what we want."
  • 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.
  • If there's one thing worse than a program that doesn't work when it should, it's a program that does work when it shouldn't.
  • If automobiles had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
  • Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
  • Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.
  • There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, any programming language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad code.
  • Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
  • There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
  • Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable
  • First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.
  • Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.

1 comment:

  1. Haha, these are awesome. I can't believe I've never heard any of 'em before. :P

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