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BASIC – A programming language. – Anon.

I speak BASIC to clients, 1-2-3 to management, and mumble to myself. – Anon.

Optimization hinders evolution. – Anon.

The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland; but thats because its the best book on anything for layman. – Anon.

Pascal keeps your hand tied. C gives you enough rope to hang yourself. – Anon.

A program is a spell cast over a computer, turning input into error messages. – Anon.

f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgmmng. – Anon.

Old programmers never die. They just branch out to a new address. – Anon.

Old programmers never die. They just cant C as well. – Anon.

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

Perl – The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption. – Keith Bostic

Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers. – Leonard Brandwein

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. – John Gall

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

A crash is when your competitors 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

He who hasnt hacked assemply language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain. – John Moore

Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals. – Henry Spencer

Dont get suckered in by the comments … they can terribly be misleading. – Dave Storer

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

Real programmers dont comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand. – Tom Van Vleck