juan_gandhi | smart code comments

http://www.quora.com/Computer-Science/What-is-the-smartest-comment-ever-in-a-block-of-code


// I dedicate all this code, all my work, 
// to my wife, Darlene, who will
// have to support me and our three 
// children and the dog once it gets
// released into the public.


// Magic. Do not touch.


// this comment included for the benefit of 
// anyone grepping for swearwords: shit.


// I am not responsible of this code.
// They made me write it, against my will.


// no comments for you
// it was hard to write
// so it should be hard to read


/* Be a real daemon: fork myself and kill my parent */


// I don't understand how the following bit works, 
// but it worked in the program I stole it from.


// Dear maintainer: 
 // Once you are done trying to 'optimize' this routine, 
 // and have realized what a terrible mistake that was,
 // please increment the following counter as a warning
 // to the next guy:
 // total_hours_wasted_here = 42