To celebrate April Fools’ we put together some entertaining quotes about computers. Some may only be understood by programmers.
“Deleted code is debugged code”. – Jeff Sickel
“Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen”. – Edward V Berard
“In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion”. – Anonymous
“If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in”. – Edsger Dijkstra
It’s not a bug – it’s an undocumented feature. – Anonymous
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. -Emo Philips
“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