Ashleigh Brilliant:

My opinions may have changed- but not the fact that I’m right.

Used it as my signature for years.

I liked this one:

A real programmer can program C in any language.

Don’t remember who said it though.

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.

“The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry.” (Henry Petroski)

/runs away

More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason – including blind stupidity.

And one I didn’t expect to encounter:

I (…) am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.

My favorite is:

“Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.” – Edward V Berard

Top 50 Programming Quotes of All Time [junauza.com]

This is what Bjarne Stroustrup quoted on criticism of C++:

There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.

I like this one :

3. “Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.” – Linus Torvalds

One of my favourites is: It’s compiling – mostly I’m slacking of

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code. ~ Ken Thompson

Deleted code is debugged code. ~ Jeff Sickel

bergo.torino wrote:

One of my favourites is: It’s compiling – mostly I’m slacking of

“Let’s document all the bugs we have so that they become features” :)

If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. ~Author Unknown

@Santosh nice!

Santosh Reddy wrote:

bq. If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. ~Author Unknown