Archive for February, 2006
“Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming.”
“Requirements are not architecture. Requirements are not design, nor are they the user interface. Requirements are need.”
“There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept?”
“If you want to shoot yourself in the foot, Perl will give you ten bullets and a laser scope, then stand by and cheer you on.”
“If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.”
“The user’s going to pick dancing pigs over security every time.”
“If you have ever seen the movie Night of the Living Dead, you have a rough idea how modern corporations and organizations operate, with projects and proposals that everybody thought were killed constantly rising from their graves to stagger back into meetings and eat the brains of the living.”
“An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.”
“In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time.”