I’ve came across this wonderful set of 100 IT Quotes. The best ones that I enjoyed :
Passwords are like underwear: you don’t let people see it, you should change it very often, and you shouldn’t share it with strangers.
Chris Pirillo
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.
- Nathaniel S. Borenstein
The best way to get accurate information on Usenet is to post something wrong and wait for corrections.
- Matthew Austern
If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.
- Linus Torvalds
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Stephen Hawking
Software is like entropy: It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the Second Law of Thermodynamics; i.e., it always increases.
- Norman Augustine
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
- Edsger W. Dijkstra
Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs: Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.
- Donald E. Knuth
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
- Abelson and Sussman
It’s OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn’t need to figure out code. You should be able to read it.
- Steve McConnell
When you are stuck in a traffic jam with a Porsche, all you do is burn more gas in idle. Scalability is about building wider roads, not about building faster cars.
- Steve Swartz
The difference between theory and practice is that in theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
- Richard Moore
and a little pun on Perl :
I think it’s a new feature. Don’t tell anyone it was an accident.
- Larry Wall
There’s no obfuscated Perl contest because it’s pointless.
- Jeff Polk
Perl: The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.
- Keith Bostic
and on c++ :
There are only two things wrong with C++: The initial concept and the implementation.
- Bertrand Meyer
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