Find a lot of funny and profound quotes about computers here:
http://www.eskimo.com/~hottub/software/programming_quotes.html
Some examples:
- Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't.
Alan J. Perlis
- Copy and paste is a design error
David Parnas
- 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 W. Kernighan
- There are only two industries that refer to their customers as "users".
Edward Tufte
- Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
Alan Kay
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