Programming phrases.

 

From: Sahoo, Nilu Chandra

 

 

 

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

-Dennis Ritchie

 

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

-Ralph Johnson

 

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

-Fred Brooks

 

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

 

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

-Bertrand Russell

 

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

-Edsger Dijkstra

 

You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic.

You cannot have both at the same time.

-Bertrand Meyer

 

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

-Alan J. Perlis

 

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

-Bill Gates

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

The Six Phases of a Project:

1.  Enthusiasm

2.  Disillusionment

3.  Panic

4.  Search for the Guilty

5.  Punishment of the Innocent

6.  Praise for non-participants

-Anonymous

 

 

 

 

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