Some cool quotes on programming

Profanity is the one language that all programmers understand.
-Anonymous

The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.
-Ernest Hemingway

There is no programming language, no matter how structured, that will prevent programmers from writing bad programs.
-L. Flon

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
-Stendhal

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
-Lao-zi

If carpenters made buildings the way programmers make programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy all of civilization.
-Anonymous

It’s just a simple matter of programming.
-Any boss who has never written a program

Source: Practical C++ Programming By Steve Oualline (O’Reilly)

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