Computer Quotes

[itslucky]

Linux is only free if your time is worthless.


The Unix 'file system' Sure it corrupts your data, but look how fast it is !


Software Independent: Won't work with ANY software.


To define recursion, we must first define recursion.


Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable.

Ralph Johnson

You think you know when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.

Alan J. Perlis

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

Edsgar W. Dijkstra

Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.

Norman R. Augustine

Standard are industry's way of codifying obsolescence.

F. L.. Bauer

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

Rich Cook

Programmers are tools for converting caffeine into code.


And you know how slow that frame buffer was ? Let's just say it's the first time I saw DSL downloads being braked by the speed of updating the progress bar.

Moraelin

If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.

Alan J. Perlis

Hacking is like sex. You get in, you get out, and hope that you didn't leave something that can be traced back to you.


The definition of a hacker ? Someone who, after installing a new program, goes immediately into the [Tools][Options] menu

Real programmers use: COPY CON PROGRAM.EXE.


Is reading in the bathroom considered Multi-Tasking ?


As a computer, I find your faith in technology amusing.


You start coding. I'll go find out what they want." — Computer analyst to programmer
"If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong.

Norm Schryer

Your program is sick ! Shoot it and put it out of its memory.


AI: anything a computer can't do yet.


Managing senior programmers is like herding cats.

Dave Platt

Reverse Polish Notation: A method of price justification for expensive calculators.


A logician trying to explain logic to a programmer is like a cat trying to explain to a fish what it's like to get wet.


A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do.


Whenever you think you have a clever programming trick... forget it !


Programming is an art form that fights back.


If you want to eat hippopotamus, you've got to pay the freight." — Attributed to an IBM guy, about why IBM software uses so much memory.


...The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.

Tom Cargill

The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time...