{"id":415,"date":"2008-08-17T14:39:53","date_gmt":"2008-08-17T19:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/2008\/08\/17\/favorite-programming-quotes\/"},"modified":"2009-08-14T16:30:48","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T23:30:48","slug":"favorite-programming-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/2008\/08\/17\/favorite-programming-quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Programming Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nThe first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time…The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time.
\nTom Cargill<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nMost of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
\nLarry Wall<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nMeasuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
\nBill Gates<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nDebugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
\nBrian W. Kernighan<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nOnce a new technology starts rolling, if you’re not part of the steamroller, you’re part of the road.
\nStewart Brand<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nIn theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
\nJan L. A. van de Snepscheut<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nThe hardest part of design … is keeping features out.
\nDonald Norman<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nBefore software can be reusable it first has to be usable.
\nRalph Johnson<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nIf debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
\nEdsger Dijkstra<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nSoftware and cathedrals are much the same – first we build them, then we pray.
\nSam Redwine<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nThe goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we’ve finished building it.
\nAnonymous Consultant\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nThe software isn’t finished until the last user is dead.
\nAnonymous Support Group Member\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nBetter train people and risk they leave – than do nothing and risk they stay.
\nAnonymous Technical Trainer\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nProgramming is 10% science, 20% ingenuity, and 70% getting the ingenuity to work with the science.
\nAnonymous Scientist\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nAll programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
\nAnonymous Hack Actor\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nBad code isn’t bad, its just misunderstood.
\nAnonymous Code Behaviorist\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nIt is easier to measure something than to understand what you have measured.
\nAnonymous Analyst\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nThe sooner you get behind in your work, the more time you have to catch up.
\nAnonymous Scheduler\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nWhen a programming language is created that allows programmers to program in simple English, it will be discovered that programmers cannot speak English.
\nAnonymous Linguist\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nBenchmarks don’t lie, but liars do benchmarks.
\nAnonymous Tester\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nWhy do we never have time to do it right, but always have time to do it over?
\nAnonymous Code Monkey\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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