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By: Curt Sampson

Curt Sampson — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:05:18 +0000

Edgar Dijkstra produced a long series of documents in longhand that are available in the E.W. Dijkstra Archive at utexas.edu. They’re fascinating; it happens that he’s an extremely good writer. His “counting lines of code,” from EWD1036, “On the cruelty of really teaching computing science,” has already been quoted here. One of my favourites is also from the same paper:

A number of these phenomena have been bundled under the name “Software
Engineering”. As economics is known as “The Miserable Science”, software
engineering should be known as “The Doomed Discipline”, doomed because
it cannot even approach its goal since its goal is self-contradictory.
Software engineering, of course, presents itself as another worthy
cause, but that is eyewash: if you carefully read its literature and
analyse what its devotees actually do, you will discover that software
engineering has accepted as its charter “How to program if you cannot.”.

By: Nicola

Nicola — Wed, 20 May 2009 11:51:53 +0000

This is one of my favorite and very true:

“Those who don’t understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.” – Henry Spencer

By: Gilson

Gilson — Tue, 19 May 2009 20:52:41 +0000

Another one (don’t know the author)
“There are only 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don’t”.

By: jota

jota — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:03:35 +0000

[Your favorite programming language]
… is somewhat like teenage sex, everybody is talking about it, most are not doing it and those that are doing it, are doing it wrong.

I heard it with TDD and Java…

By: Heiko

Heiko — Tue, 19 May 2009 14:17:04 +0000

a programmer in response to the warning on a packet of cigaretts, stating “warning ! smoking can cause cancer”:
“i am a programmer – I just care ’bout errors, not ’bout warnings”

By: Cory

Cory — Tue, 19 May 2009 10:36:17 +0000

“Three rules of optimization: 1. Optimize Later 2. Optimize Later 3. Optimize Later” – Author Unknown

By: David Benn

David Benn — Tue, 19 May 2009 10:30:27 +0000

Your post reminded me of the quotes I’ve collected over several years. Here’s a blog post I just wrote about that: hhttp://dbenn.wordpress.com/2009/05/19/programming-quotes/

By: Programming Quotes « Strange Quark’s

Programming Quotes « Strange Quark’s — Tue, 19 May 2009 10:21:59 +0000

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