Today I stumbled across a great thread at Stack Overflow about great programming quotes. Here are the ones I liked most and therefore had to save:
On two occasions I have been asked, ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. Charles Babbage
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Antoine de Saint Exupéry
To iterate is human, to recurse divine. L. Peter Deutsch
Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If it’s original, you’ll have to ram it down their throats. Howard Aiken
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware. Alan Kay
And on a less serious note a colleague of mine told me a couple of hilarious science jokes from Brian Malow. Watch a video of the jokes here. My favourite:
A room temperature superconductor walks into a bar. The bartender says, “We don’t serve any superconductors in this bar.” The room temperature superconductor leaves without putting up any resistance.