I don’t care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine! (Vidiu Platon) There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. (Ken Olson, President, Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977) 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) There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works. (Alan J. Perlis)
True innovation often comes from the small startup who is lean enough to launch a market but lacks the heft to own it. (Timm Martin) A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer. (Bill Gates) If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. (Edsger W. Dijkstra) Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++? (Richard A. O’Keefe) Everything that can be invented has been invented. (Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899)
Don’t worry if it doesn’t work right. If everything did, you’d be out of a job. (Mosher’s Law of Software Engineering) I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn’t show up in a Unix directory listing. (Oktal) There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses. (Bjarne Stroustrup) There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don’t believe this to be a coincidence. (Jeremy S. Anderson)
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. (Rick Cook) The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit. (Anonymous) 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) First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack. (George Carrette)