Tag archive for “Programming”
“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.”
“An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.”
“Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.”
“The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late.”
“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.’”
“Human beings are not accustomed to being perfect, and few areas of human activity demand it. Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program.”
“Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance.”