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“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.”
“If your project doesn’t work, look for the part that you didn’t think was important.”
“A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.”
“All programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery especially attracts those who believe in happy endings and fairy godmothers. Perhaps the hundreds of nitty frustrations drive away all but those who habitually focus on the end goal. Perhaps it is merely that computers are young, programmers are younger, and the young are always optimists. But however the selection process works, the result is indisputable: ‘This time it will surely run,’ or ‘I just found the last bug.’”
“It’s harder than you might think to squander millions of dollars, but a flawed software development process is a tool well suited to the job.”