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I speak BASIC to clients, 1-2-3 to management, and mumble to myself.
Anon.
Don't get suckered in by the comments ... they can terribly be misleading.
Dave Storer
If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether X is an integer or a real number, we can begin to focus on programming as a source of ideas.
Harold Abelson
BASIC - A programming language.
As much as we like to think that we are independent-minded, free-willed, autonomous individuals, the fact remains that some part of us is still susceptible to programming.Programming can happen to anyone. Intelligence, education, common sense, belief, or convictions offer little protection. All it takes is repetition (the slow route) or vulnerability (the fast route) and, eventually, we're hooked. Master programmers - from cult leaders to cigarette companies to government agencies - do both, as often as possible, whether you like it or not.Ironically, the more immune to programming you think you are, the more susceptible you become.
Peter McWilliams, Life 102: What
Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
Michael Sinz
Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers.
Leonard Brandwein
Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
Tom Van Vleck
Old programmers never die. They just branch out to a new address.
Old programmers never die. They just can't C as well.
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
Dave Parnas
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There are two ways to write error-free programs. Only the third one works.
A crash is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is an 'idiosyncrasy'. Frequently, crashes are followed with a message like 'ID 02'. 'ID' is an abbreviation for idiosyncrasy and the number that follows indicates how many more months of testing the product should have had.
Guy Kawasaki
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
John Gall
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.
C.A.R. Hoare
Real programmers don't write in PL/I. PL/I is for programmers who can't decide whether to write in COBOL or FORTRAN.
Pascal keeps your hand tied. C gives you enough rope to hang yourself.
Real programmers don't work from 9 to 5. If any real programmers are around at 9am it's because they were up all night.
Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.
Keith Bostic
