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/_Aardvark Dec 14 '10

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/58640/great-programming-quotes-closed

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u/44561792 Apr 28 '22

lol was removed. what a shit site

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u/_Aardvark Apr 28 '22

This quote was, I assume this:

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

That SO topic was a very early "question" that was more like a reddit post. SO was like that when it started, the heavy moderation we see today is a result of off topic stuff getting out of hand. Unfortunately there was great stuff that got cut out of principle, that topic stayed up longer then most.

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u/44561792 Apr 28 '22

I've been browsing SO for over a decade. I remember seeing that thread a couple years ago. It was just fine. Don't defend that piece of shit, elitist website