Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.
I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.
Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all.
I'm sorry, but you just made me lose my sense of humor, which is deeply regrettable.
Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
This job of playing God is a little too big for me. Nevertheless, someone has to do it, so I'll try my best to fake it.
Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad thoughts. What they end up doing is killing the creativity of programming.
I've decided I don't want to be a manager. Every time you try to be responsive to your employees, they say you're being reactive and not proactive. And when you try to be proactive, they accuse you of being capricious and arbitrary. So I don't wanna be a manager.
The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.
Save it for my unauthorized autobiography.
Just don't create a file called '-rf.'
[Perl] gives you the STDERR filehandle so that your program can make snide comments off to the side while it transforms (or attempts to transform) your input into your output.
I think I'll side with the pissheads on this one.
You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns?
A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.
Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.
The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise.
Yes, but I did manage to increase the amount of virginity in the world by that method.
A good messenger expects to get shot.
This does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.
The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for. By all means, let them send me money if it makes them feel better.
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