Quotes on Programming Funny

Most of the good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.

Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later

C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

Talk is cheap. Show me the code.