Re: Notable programming quotes
- From: prateek aggarwal <prateekagarwal99@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 09:04:06 +0530
wow!
very interesting!
loved it, mate.
cheers!
prateek agarwal.
On 7/16/10, The Elf <inthaneelf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ahahahahahahahahaha! these are great, love it!
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> thanks, I needed a laugh right now,
> elf
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jacob Kruger
> To: Program-l
> Cc: ProgrammingBlind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 4:53 AM
> Subject: Notable programming quotes
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> Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if
> both are frozen.
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> Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a
> violent psychopath who knows where you live.
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> 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.
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> The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development
> time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the
> development time.
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> Linux is only free if your time has no value.
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> It works on my machine.
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> It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever
> consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would
> instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could
> be given as a parameter.
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> If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming
> must be the process of putting them in.
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> A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention in
> human history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
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> The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer
> is doing until it's too late.
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> Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft
> building progress by weight.
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> There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make
> it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is
> to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first
> method is far more difficult.
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> With regard to adding more programmers to get a project done faster...Nine
> people can't make a baby in a month.
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> A programmer started to cuss
> Because getting to sleep was a fuss
> As he lay there in bed
> Looping 'round in his head
> was: while(!asleep()) sheep++;
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> Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning.
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> You can stand on the shoulders of giants OR a big enough pile of dwarfs,
> works either way.
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> Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build
> bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce
> bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
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> An idiot with a computer is a faster, better idiot
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> We better hurry up and start coding, there are going to be a lot of bugs
> to fix.
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> A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart
> things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do
> incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.
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> Mostly, when you see programmers, they aren't doing anything. One of the
> attractive things about programmers is that you cannot tell whether or not
> they are working simply by looking at them. Very often they're sitting there
> seemingly drinking coffee and gossiping, or just staring into space. What
> the programmer is trying to do is get a handle on all the individual and
> unrelated ideas that are scampering around in his head.
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> I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
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> Jacob Kruger
> Blind Biker
> Skype: BlindZA
> '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
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