Archive for March, 2006
“Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.”
“If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.”
“The job of the average manager requires a shift in focus every few minutes. The job of the average software developer requires that the developer not shift focus more often than every few hours.”
“A brute force solution that works is better than an elegant solution that doesn’t work.”
“When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only of how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.”
“Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!”
“The software isn’t finished until the last user is dead.”
“There is an old saying with software that three years from now, no one will remember if you shipped an awesome software release a few months late. What customers will still remember three years from now is if you shipped a software release that wasn’t ready a few months too soon. It takes multiple product releases to change people’s quality perception about one bad release.”
“Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.”