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My favourite programming quotes
http://www.devinprogress.info/2013/02/my-favourite-programming-quotes.html
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the link seems to be broken
Martin Fowler's quote seems to be a riff on Weinberg's various folksy observations in The Psychology of Computer Programming -- though maybe Weinberg picked it up from elsewhere.
The Alan Kay quote is a possibly apocryphal story; there are varying accounts[1] (and see [2]).
No list of programming quotes is complete without the Epigrams of Alan Perlis[3].
[1] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?HeInventedTheTerm [2] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?HeDidntInventTheTerm [3] http://www.cs.yale.edu/quotes.html
The Alan Kay quote is a possibly apocryphal story; there are varying accounts[1] (and see [2]).
No list of programming quotes is complete without the Epigrams of Alan Perlis[3].
[1] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?HeInventedTheTerm [2] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?HeDidntInventTheTerm [3] http://www.cs.yale.edu/quotes.html
great list there, thanks. It's in my bookmarks now :)
This one reminds me of The Story of Mel <http://catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html>;