Adok's Tumblelog

sathyabhat:

UNIX is simple. But It just needs a genius to understand its simplicity.

-Dennis Ritchie


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Before software can be reusable, it first has to be usable.

-Ralph Johnson


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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad
judgment.

-Fred Brooks


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It’s hard enough to find an error in your code when you’re looking
for it;
It’s even harder when you’ve assumed your code is error-free.

-Steve McConnell Code Complete


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The trouble with the world is that the stupid are sure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

-Bertrand Russell


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If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

-Edsger Dijkstra


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You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic;
You cannot have both at the same time.

-Bertrand Meyer


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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third works.

-Alan J. Perlis


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Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

-Bill Gates


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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.

-Tom Cargill


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Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs.
The Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots.
So far the Universe is winning.

-Anonymous


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Theory is when you know something, but it doesn’t work.
Practice is when something works, but you don’t know why it works.
Programmers combine Theory and Practice: Nothing works and they don’t know why.

-Anonymous


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The Six Phases of a Project:

* Enthusiasm

* Disillusionment

* Panic

* Search for the Guilty

* Punishment of the Innocent

* Praise for non-participants

-Anonymous


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No matter how slick (efficient) the demo is in rehearsal, when you
do it in front of a live audience,
The probability of a flawless presentation is
Inversely proportional to the number of people watching,
Raised to the power of the amount of money involved.

-Anonymous