Great programming quotes
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Great programming quotes
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#2For those who didn't make it past the first page, this one's new on me and became an instant favourite:
You can stand on the shoulders of giants OR a big enough pile of dwarfs, works either way.
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#3The best hands down quote in my opinion is:
There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. -Phil Karlton
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#4My favorite comes from Gerry Weinberg: If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
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#5"Once a new technology starts rolling, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road." - Stewart Brand
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#6Linux is only free if your time has no value
True, but in my experience it's a worthy investment of valuable time. I spent three years using Linux distros, and though I use OSX now, I'm much more comfortable with general system administration than I would have been otherwise.
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#7Loved this one:
Hofstadter's Law:
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
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#8Another sizeable quotes collection: http://quotes.cat-v.org/programming/
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#9There's another decent collection of quotes here:
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#10The best hands down quote in my opinion is: There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. -Phil Karlton
I like the variant:
"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors."