Author Topic: Quotes of Note (Read 119352 times)

Mr_Anderson · « **Reply #400 on:** April 24, 2008, 10:42:14 AM »

"We will not sell the movie rights, not to you…especially not to you."
--Paul Sams of Blizzard talking to Uwe Boll about World of Warcraft movie rights

n1c · « **Reply #401 on:** May 04, 2008, 01:32:53 AM »

More coming out about Saddam Hussein. We now know he takes Viagra and he has as many as six mistresses. No wonder Congress is reluctant to take action against this guy - he's one of their own.
Jay Leno

Jeggard · « **Reply #402 on:** September 02, 2008, 06:05:52 PM »

i like this one...

"Evil is a point of view."
ANNE RICE, Interview with the Vampire

I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart — one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of man. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself commiting a vile or a stupid action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgement, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?

EDGAR ALLAN POE

ZWarrior · « **Reply #403 on:** October 20, 2008, 08:19:39 AM »

"Never let someone who says it cannot be done interrupt the person who is doing it."

-- /.

ZWarrior · « **Reply #404 on:** October 22, 2008, 08:07:54 AM »

"People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them."

ZWarrior · « **Reply #405 on:** October 29, 2008, 10:53:18 AM »

"Old programmers never die, they just become managers."

ZWarrior · « **Reply #406 on:** November 03, 2008, 10:10:50 AM »

"To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction...and a cat - good luck on finding the cat"

ZWarrior · « **Reply #407 on:** November 10, 2008, 08:18:13 AM »

"It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious."

opiesilver · « **Reply #408 on:** November 10, 2008, 09:15:24 AM »

"When formulating any plan there is only one variable that can never be properly accounted for: Boobs" -Greg Dean

ZWarrior · « **Reply #409 on:** November 10, 2008, 10:34:00 AM »

Nice.

Mr_Anderson · « **Reply #410 on:** November 10, 2008, 11:16:14 AM »

Good one!

ZWarrior · « **Reply #411 on:** November 28, 2008, 02:17:31 PM »

The Law of The Garbage Truck
=============================

One day I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport.

We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his brakes, skidded, and missed the other car by just inches! The driver of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us. My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy; and I mean, he was really friendly.

So I asked, 'Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!' This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call, 'The Law of the Garbage Truck.'

He explained that many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it and sometimes they'll dump it on you. Don't take it personally. Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. Don't take their garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home, or on the streets.

The bottom line is that successful people do not let garbage trucks take over their day. Life's too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so...... 'Love the people who treat you right. Pray for the ones who don't.'

Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it.

~Author Unknown~

Boomslang · « **Reply #412 on:** November 29, 2008, 04:43:45 AM »

Spread the wealth around. guess who

JollyRoger · « **Reply #413 on:** February 20, 2009, 08:20:50 AM »

27 Programming quotes

“ If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. ” - Edsger Dijkstra

“ Rules of Optimization:
Rule 1: Don't do it.
Rule 2 (for experts only): Don't do it yet. ” - Michael A. Jackson

“ The best method for accelerating a computer is the one that boosts it by 9.8 m/s2. ” - Anonymous

“ Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. ” - Edward V Berard

“ 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

“ It's not at all important to get it right the first time. It's vitally important to get it right the last time. ” - Andrew Hunt and David Thomas

“ First, solve the problem. Then, write the code. ” - John Johnson

“ Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration. ” - Stan Kelly-Bootle

“ Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. ” - Rick Osborne

“ Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. ” - Martin Fowler

“ Software sucks because users demand it to. ” - Nathan Myhrvold

“ Linux is only free if your time has no value. ” - Jamie Zawinski

“ Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. ” - Donald Knuth

“ There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, any programming language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad code. ” - Flon's Law

“ The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time. ” - Tom Cargill

“ Good code is its own best documentation. As you're about to add a comment, ask yourself, "How can I improve the code so that this comment isn't needed?" Improve the code and then document it to make it even clearer. ” - Steve McConnell

“ Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. ” - Abelson / Sussman

“ Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves. ” - Alan Kay

“ Programming can be fun, so can cryptography; however they should not be combined. ” - Kreitzberg and Shneiderman

“ Copy and paste is a design error. ” - David Parnas

“ Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable. ” - Ralph Johnson

“ Without requirements or design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file. ” - Louis Srygley

“ When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop. ” - Alan Perlis

“ Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind. ” - Donald Knuth

“ 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

JollyRoger · « **Reply #414 on:** February 22, 2009, 06:29:18 AM »

No matter how hard you try to push the envelope, remember it's only stationary. -- My roommate...

News:

Recent Posts

Fiction

Permissions

Author Topic: Quotes of Note (Read 119352 times)