Wednesday, December 15, 2010

50 dev quotes

For future developers, here is a compilation of 50 programming quotes from TechSource. You can go and read them all yourself, but I will highlight some of those I found more interesting. If you only have time for 3 quotes read 4, 5, 44 and 50.

50. "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning." - Rick Cook

48. "Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen." - Edward V Berard

44. "I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone." - Bjarne Stroustrup

39. “Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline.” - Bill Clinton

25. “You can’t have great software without a great team, and most software teams behave like dysfunctional families.” - Jim McCarthy

24. "PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil, perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals." - Jon Ribbens

23. "Programming is like kicking yourself in the face, sooner or later your nose will bleed." - Kyle Woodbury

10. "People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on each other, like a wall of mini stones." - Donald Knuth

5. “To iterate is human, to recurse divine.” - L. Peter Deutsch

4. "On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament]: 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." - Charles Babbage

1. “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.” - C.A.R. Hoare

forgot to mention, we can't count too. we need to write a program on Matlab to do that.

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