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great programming quotes
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Tim McGuire
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Joined: Apr 30, 2003
Posts: 819
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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/58640/great-programming-quotes-closed
some familiar ones, some I've never seen before. there are quite a few.
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marc weber
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Joined: Aug 31, 2004
Posts: 11343
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My own fallback: "There's a reason for that."
(The key is to resist any further elaboration.)
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"We're kind of on the level of crossword puzzle writers... And no one ever goes to them and gives them an award." ~Joe Strummer
sscce.org
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Bert Bates
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Joined: Oct 14, 2002
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Damn you Tim, I was supposed to get something done today!
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Eliminate fossil fuel subsidies. (If you're not on the edge, you're taking up too much room.)
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Vikas Kapoor
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Joined: Aug 16, 2007
Posts: 1374
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I am going through the list of quotes and I must say there are lots of smart people on earth.
It works on my machine.
How many times you guys have heard or used this quote? 
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Praison Selvaraj
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Joined: Jun 05, 2010
Posts: 46
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Change is the only thing that remains constant.
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SCJP, SCWCD, SCEA
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fred rosenberger
lowercase baba
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Joined: Oct 02, 2003
Posts: 9940
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My new favorite is
"The first 90% of the code takes 90% of the time, and the last 10% takes the other 90%"
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Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
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Ernest Friedman-Hill
author and iconoclast
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Joined: Jul 08, 2003
Posts: 24045
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Zawinski's Law has always been a favorite:
Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
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[Jess in Action][AskingGoodQuestions]
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Ulf Dittmer
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Joined: Mar 22, 2005
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Ernest Friedman-Hill wrote:Zawinski's Law has always been a favorite:
That's why we're still tinkering with the forum software.
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Android apps – ImageJ plugins – Java web charts
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Ernest Friedman-Hill
author and iconoclast
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Joined: Jul 08, 2003
Posts: 24045
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Ulf Dittmer wrote:
Ernest Friedman-Hill wrote:Zawinski's Law has always been a favorite:
That's why we're still tinkering with the forum software.
Which, I must note, can both send and receive mail!
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W. Joe Smith
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Joined: Feb 10, 2009
Posts: 710
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I've been guilty of saying this when looking at code I wrote some time ago:
Well, it made sense when I wrote it....
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SCJA
When I die, I want people to look at me and say "Yeah, he might have been crazy, but that was one zarkin frood that knew where his towel was."
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Paul Clapham
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Joined: Oct 14, 2005
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W. Joe Smith wrote:I've been guilty of saying this when looking at code I wrote some time ago:
Well, it made sense when I wrote it....
I usually say "Jeez, what nitwit wrote this code?" Of course I always make sure it was me before saying that.
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