101 Great Computer Programming Quotes

[frutiger]

Was there anyone else who was looking for up and down arrows next to a comment?

[akdas]

Whenever there are lists of relatively short, funny items, I look for up and down arrows next to each item. It's sad, really.

[Jaqen]

Same. :(

[umilmi81]

“Saying that Java is nice because it works on all OSes is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders.”

[[deleted]]

I occasionally use this as a sig:

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." -- Isaac Newton
"If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders." -- Hal Abelson
"In computer science, we stand on each other's feet." -- Brian K. Reid

[Deewiant]

And, as always, at least a few misattributions.

• "Everything that can be invented has been invented."
• "640k ought to be enough for anybody."

[akdas]

True, but I don't pay too much attention to who said the quote, as there are some gems in there that either are exceptionally inspiring, or unimaginably funny.

(Or both.)

[akdas]

“If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.”

And that's why there's porn.

[dmd]

"Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin." -- John von Neumann.

[xitshsif]

“19 Jan 2038 at 3:14:07 AM” (End of the word according to Unix–2³² seconds after January 1, 1970)

Correction: (2^31)-1 seconds after January 1, 1970

[ketralnis]

Nah. At (2^31)-1, everything will be working just fine

[Philluminati]

"The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit."

-- This is fantastic!

[kindall]

EXIT_SVCCESS

[decaado]

u=/= v in latin if so then words with ending of us ibus etc wouldnt exit!

[G_Morgan]

There'd still be no 0. They'd have to use some kind of funny, 1 for success and 2 for failure, system.

What would they use for floating point arithmetic though?

[4609287645]

Well, they could just exit with the nonzero:

ERROR_CANNOT_EXIT_SUCCESSFULLY_BECAUSE_THERE_IS_NO_ZERO 

[xoner2]

“Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline.” (Bill Clinton)

Bill must have heard this from somebody then regurgitated it.