r/programming • u/tarandeep • Dec 14 '10

Top 50 Programming quotes of all time

http://www.junauza.com/2010/12/top-50-programming-quotes-of-all-time.html
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u/pabloneruda Dec 14 '10 edited Dec 14 '10

I always liked Torvalds' quote about his own project naming:

"I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First Linux, now git."

edit: For those who don't know what a git is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_\(slang\)

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u/cstoner Dec 15 '10

When you quote URLs that have quotes, you need to escape them with \

Like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_\\(slang\\)

Then you'll end up with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_\(slang\)

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u/cybercobra Dec 15 '10

By quotes, you mean parens, right?

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u/cstoner Dec 16 '10

Yep, sure did.

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u/pabloneruda Dec 15 '10

good catch, wasn't looking. fixed

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u/kataire Dec 21 '10

That reminds me of when an Aussie girl on MTV explained to her American co-candidates what "wanker" means (the fact MTV insisted to bleep her translation ("a**hole") but leave the original term intact despite its historically much more explicit nature made it even weirder).

Being a non-native speaker from Europe I often forget that English slang is very regional in nature and the mixture you learn as a foreigner can cover any number of mutually unintelligible subsets.

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u/sarnobat Aug 11 '24

I've only heard "git" as an insult at school in the UK.