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Re:Classic Programming Quotes by WalterBright on Saturday November 20, 2010 @05:32PM (#1925550)
"If you must break the loop, do it to sieze power; in all other cases continue." -- Julius C'ster
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Re:Classic Programming Quotes by DanielRibeiro on Saturday November 20, 2010 @09:48PM (#1926073)
There are two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.

- Twitted to death. My source: http://twitter.com/#!/leahculver/status/26690101915

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Re:Classic Programming Quotes by amalcon on Saturday November 20, 2010 @09:29PM (#1926019)
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

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Re:Classic Programming Quotes by bradly on Saturday November 20, 2010 @08:32PM (#1925915)
"Some people, when confronted with a problem, think 'I know, I'll use regular expressions.' Now they have two problems."
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Re:Classic Programming Quotes by forkandwait on Saturday November 20, 2010 @10:11PM (#1926143)
"Some people, when confronted with a problem, think 'I know, I'll use XML.' Now they have two problems."
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Re:Classic Programming Quotes by forkandwait on Sunday November 21, 2010 @12:10AM (#1926370)
Downvoting? This is actually the quote I heard, though I know regexp'es are older than XML (and a good deal more useful, if you ask me).
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Re:Classic Programming Quotes by bajsejohannes on Sunday November 21, 2010 @07:39AM (#1926975)
I find this quote funny, but untrue. If you use regular expressions for the right problems, you solve the problem. If you use it for the wrong problems, well, then regular expressions aren't where you should put the blame.
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Re:Classic Programming Quotes by Tycho on Saturday November 20, 2010 @09:56PM (#1926098)
"When it came to programming, I was the 'go-to' guy in the office. I didn't know how to write loops."
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Re:Classic Programming Quotes by rednum on Saturday November 20, 2010 @05:22PM (#1925521)
Similar submission for those who want more programing quotes (recently was also posted on HN): http://www.devtopics.com/101-great-computer-programming-quot...
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Re:Classic Programming Quotes by djacobs on Saturday November 20, 2010 @06:09PM (#1925655) 

  Saying that Java is good because it works on all platforms
  is like saying anal sex is good because it works on all
  genders.
Okay, let's be clear. Anachronistic != Classic.
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Re:Classic Programming Quotes by __mt0d on Saturday November 20, 2010 @07:16PM (#1925774)
Complementary: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/58640/great-programming-q...
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Re:Classic Programming Quotes by angrycoder on Saturday November 20, 2010 @10:16PM (#1926167)
There are three ways of doing things around here: the right way, the wrong way, and the way that I do it.

Robert De Niro ~ Casino

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Re:Classic Programming Quotes by gruseom on Saturday November 20, 2010 @10:28PM (#1926191)
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/quotes-unco...
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Re:Classic Programming Quotes by WalterBright on Saturday November 20, 2010 @05:29PM (#1925540)
"I came, I coded, I crashed" -- Julius C'ster
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Re:Classic Programming Quotes by WalterBright on Saturday November 20, 2010 @05:31PM (#1925546)
"The double is cast" -- Julius C'ster
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Re:Classic Programming Quotes by jrockway on Saturday November 20, 2010 @08:45PM (#1925943)
"Segmentation fault (core dumped)" -- Program using cstrs.
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Re:Classic Programming Quotes by alkavan on Saturday November 20, 2010 @06:54PM (#1925731) 

  Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
  Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible,
  you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
  - Brian Kernighan
my fav :)
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