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Science is to computer science as hydrodynamics is to plumbing.
-- Stan Kelly-Bootle ("Computer Language," Oct 90)
(A)bort (R)etry (T)oss computer across room?
Guru, n: A computer owner who can read the manual.
Real Programmers never work from 9 to 5. If any real programmer is around at 9 a.m., it's because they were up all night.
-- Some computer geek
We think in language, therefore the quality of our thoughts can only ever be as good as the quality of our language.
-- George Carlin
C++, the language in which only friends can access your private members.
You can tell how far we have to go when FORTRAN is the language of supercomputers.
-- Steven Feiner
"The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but still 'tis nonsense."
-- Benjamin Franklin
“I speak two languages: Body and English.”
-- Mae West
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still know how to read.
(Computer Museum (Boston))
Computer Science without FORTRAN and COBOL is like birthday cake without ketchup and mustard.
Computers save man a lot of guesswork, but then, so do bikini's.
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
-- Larry Wall
A language is a dialect with an army and a navy.
-- Max Weinreich
"We need a president who's fluent in at least one language."
-- Buck Henry
"All definitions, no matter the language, should be considered probationary."
-- Frank Herbert (Whipping Star)
The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.
Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.
-- Steve Wozniak
[Perl] isn't a programming language, it's a thousand special case rules flying in close formation.
-- Peter da Silva
Murphy's Eleventh Law of Computing:
A computer program will follow your orders, but rarely your intentions.
Language and its absurd conjunctions;
Constellations and crustaceans rhyme.
On-line, adj: The idea that a human being should always be accessible to a computer.
I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
-- Lily Tomlin
To err is human but to really foul things up requires a computer.
(Farmer's Almanac for 1978)
What do people mean when they say the computer went down on them?
-- Marilyn Pittman
Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will piss on your computer.
"The computer world is like a great big toy store. But all the toys are broken."
-- Steve Witham
BASIC, n.:
A programming language. Related to certain social diseases in that those who have it will not admit it in polite company.