quotes.txt

"We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins." - Ellen Ullman
"What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months." - Fred Brooks
"A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want."- Niklaus Wirth
"One of the best programming skills you can have is knowing when to walk away for awhile." - Oscar Godson
“Without requirements or design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file.” - Louis Srygley
"So much complexity in software comes from trying to make one thing do two things." – Ryan Singer
"Programming is being ten minutes away from being done for the rest of your life." - Jon Maddox
“Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.” – Martin Fowler
"Write shy code - modules that don't reveal anything unnecessary to other modules and that don't rely on other modules' implementations." - Dave Thomas
"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code." - Ken Thompson
“Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable.” – Ralph Johnson
\\"The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.\\"
\\"Programming is like pinball. The reward for doing it is the opportunity of doing it again.\\"
"There is nothing more unproductive than to build something efficiently that should not have been built at all." - Milt Bryce
"Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight." - Bill Gates
"In programming, the hard part isn't solving problems, but deciding what problems to solve." - Paul Graham
"The trick is to fix the problem you have, rather than the problem you want." - Bram Cohen
"Languages shape the way we think, or don't." - Erik Naggum
"Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live." - Martin Golding
“To iterate is human, to recurse divine.” - L. Peter Deutsch
"Good design adds value faster than it adds cost." - Thomas C. Gale
“I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn’t show up in a Unix directory listing.” - Oktal
"They don't make bugs like Bunny anymore." - Olav Mjelde.
"A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street." - Doug Linder
\\"In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.\\"
\\"C++, where friends have access to your private members.\\"