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BASIC - A programming language.
-Anon.
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I speak BASIC to clients, 1-2-3 to management, and mumble to myself.
-Anon.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
-Anon.
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The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland; but that's because it's the best book on anything for layman.
-Anon.
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Pascal keeps your hand tied. C gives you enough rope to hang yourself.
-Anon.
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A program is a spell cast over a computer, turning input into error messages.
-Anon.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs. Only the third one works.
-Anon.
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f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgmmng.
-Anon.
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Old programmers never die. They just branch out to a new address.
-Anon.
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Old programmers never die. They just can't C as well.
-Anon.
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If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether X is an integer or a real number, we can begin to focus on programming as a source of ideas.
-Harold Abelson
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Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.
-Keith Bostic
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Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers.
-Leonard Brandwein
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A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
-John Gall
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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. The first method is far more difficult.
-C.A.R. Hoare
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A crash is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is an 'idiosyncrasy'. Frequently, crashes are followed with a message like 'ID 02'. 'ID' is an abbreviation for idiosyncrasy and the number that follows indicates how many more months of testing the product should have had.
-Guy Kawasaki
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As much as we like to think that we are independent-minded, free-willed, autonomous individuals, the fact remains that some part of us is still susceptible to programming.
Programming can happen to anyone. Intelligence, education, common sense, belief, or convictions offer little protection. All it takes is repetition (the slow route) or vulnerability (the fast route) and, eventually, we're hooked. Master programmers - from cult leaders to cigarette companies to government agencies - do both, as often as possible, whether you like it or not.
Ironically, the more immune to programming you think you are, the more susceptible you become.
-Peter McWilliams
Life 102: What to Do When Your Guru Sues You (Prelude Press: Los Angeles, 1994). ISBN 0-931580-34-X., pp 6-7.
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He who hasn't hacked assemply language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain.
-John Moore
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As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
-Dave Parnas
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Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
-Michael Sinz
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Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals.
-Henry Spencer
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Don't get suckered in by the comments ... they can terribly be misleading.
-Dave Storer
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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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Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
-Tom Van Vleck
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Real programmers don't work from 9 to 5. If any real programmers are around at 9am it's because they were up all night.
-Tom Van Vleck
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Books about Programs & Programming
