• "I've finally learned what 'upward compatible' means. It means we get to keep all our old mistakes." (Dennie van Tassel)
  • "Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs, while the Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning." (Rich Cook)
  • "The Web is like a dominatrix. Everywhere I turn, I see little buttons ordering me to Submit." (Nytwind)
  • "Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window." (Steve Wozniak)
  • The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim." (Edsger W. Dijkstra)
  • "It's ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc. The human condition is really becoming more obsolete every minute." (Marvin Minsky)
  • "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." (Pablo Picasso)
  • "Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork." (Sam Ewing)
  • "They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction." (Janet Reno)
  • "That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers." (Larry Niven)
  • "Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter." (Eric Raymond)
  • "Don't worry if it doesn't work right. If everything did, you'd be out of a job." (Mosher's Law of Software Engineering)
  • "Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight." (Bill Gates)
  • "First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack." (George Carrette)
  • "First, solve the problem. Then, write the code." (John Johnson)
  • "The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit." (Anonymous)
  • "It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration." (E. W. Dijkstra)
  • "Writing in C or C++ is like running a chain saw with all the safety guards removed." (Bob Gray)
  • "In C++ it's harder to shoot yourself in the foot, but when you do, you blow off your whole leg." (Bjarne Stroustrup)
  • "Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris." (Larry Wall)
  • "Java is, in many ways, C++–." (Michael Feldman)
  • "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." (Alanna)
  • "If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution." (Robert Sewell)
  • "Software is like sex: It's better when it's free." (Linus Torvalds)
  • "The only people who have anything to fear from free software are those whose products are worth even less." (David Emery)
  • "Good code is its own best documentation." (Steve McConnell)
  • "Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else." (Eagleson's Law)
  • "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)
  • "If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in." (Edsger W. Dijkstra)
  • "I don't care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine!" (Vidiu Platon)
  • "Programming is like sex: one mistake and you're providing support for a lifetime." (Michael Sinz)
  • "To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer." (Paul Ehrlich)
  • "A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history–with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila." (Mitch Radcliffe)
  • "I think there's a world market for about 5 computers." (Thomas J. Watson, Chairman of the Board, IBM, circa 1948)
  • "It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years." (John Von Neumann, circa 1949)
  • "But what is it good for?" (Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, commenting on the microchip, 1968)
  • "640K ought to be enough for anybody." (Bill Gates, 1981)
  • < niluje> windows est payant, pas linux, ça prouve bien que windows est mieux.
    < Clex> Ben niluje, quitte ta femme et va aux putes. (Bashfr#8101)
  • "The trouble with computers, of course, is that they're very sophisticated idiots." (the doctor. (Doctor who))
  • “If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.” (George S. Patton)
  • "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man"
- George Bernard Shaw
  • "Moi, je dis qu’il existe une société secrète avec des ramifications dans le monde entier, qui complote pour répandre la rumeur qu‘il existe un complot universel." - Umberto Eco