Monday, June 30, 2008

Software Quotes!!!

UNIX is simple. But It just needs a genius to understand its simplicity.
-Dennis Ritchie
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Before software can be reusable, it first has to be usable.
-Ralph Johnson
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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment..
-Fred Brooks
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Theory is when you know something, but it doesn't work. Practice is when something works, but you don't know why it works. Programmers combine theory and practice: Nothing works and they don't know why.
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It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; it's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free.
-Steve McConnell Code Complete
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If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
-Gerald Weinberg
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The Six Phases of a Project:
* Enthusiasm
* Disillusionment
* Panic
* Search for the Guilty
* Punishment of the Innocent
* Praise for non-participants
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Good code is its own best documentation. As you're about to add a comment, ask yourself, 'How can I improve the code so that this comment isn't needed?' Improve the code and then document it to make it even clearer.
-Steve McConnell Code Complete
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The trouble with the world is that the stupid are sure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
-Bertrand Russell
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No matter how slick (efficient) the demo is in rehearsal, when you do it in front of a live audience the probability of a flawless presentation is inversely proportional to the number of people watching, raised to the power of the amount of money involved.
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One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
-Robert Firth
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Fifty years of programming language research and we end up with C++?
-Richard A. O'Keefe
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
-Edsger Dijkstra
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You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic; you cannot have both at the same time.
-Bertrand Meyer
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third works..
-Alan J. Perlis
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Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
-Bill Gates
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The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.
-Tom Cargill
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Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs The Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning.
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Quotable Quotes!!!

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
(Its not what happans to you thats important but how you react to it.)
We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.
- Epictetuos


Intelligent design gets everything backwords. Its like, saying that our hands are miraculous because they fit so nicely into those gloves


The invisible and non existant almost looks alike.


I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
-- Groucho Marx


I don't care if you don't like me...I wasn't put on this Earth to please U!


Compromise is nothing but dividing a cake in such a way that everybody believes he got the biggest piece!


If you want to go quickly, go alone; if you want to go far, go together.


Religion is not about believe it is about behavior.


Advertising is the price companies pay for being un-original.


Do not do it to others what you would not have others to do to you.
- Confucius


The more you write personal; the more it becomes universal.


If all the insects will disappeared from the earth, within 50 years all life on earth will end; If all the humans will disappeared from the earth, within 50 years all forms of life on earth will flourish!


If you not prepared to be wrong nothing original will come out.


Q: Why did Adam and Eve have a perfect marriage?
A: He didn't have to hear about all the men she could have married, and she didn't have to hear about the way his mother cooked.


Confidence comes not from always being right, but from not fearing to be wrong.....


God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference.


If you say something often enough, then people begin to belive it.


If there is a elephant in room, introduce him.


We can't change the cards dealt, we can only change how we play the hand.


Computers are faster, they just take longer.


"Youth is wasted on the young"


It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change
- Calafornia Academi of Sciences


2b !(2b)


We want to happy at any cost; while we can be happy at no cost...


For everything you want in life, there is a price to pay - and somebody has to pay it; it might not be you, but the price will have to be paid...


I'm sure..I'm not the Best, still I'm happy.. I'm not like the Rest..!!


Life teaches all the one needs to learn. And the best part is that it comes one day at a time. Hour by hour, minute by minute, every second, every moment at a time. There’s no multitasking in life.


We don’t want a world full of winners. Nor does it make sense to have an army of losers. What is needed is people who think that winning isn’t the only thing. And that loosing too is a part of the game.


The trouble with being punctual is that, no one is there to appreciate it!!


Men marry women thinking that she would never change and women marry men thinking that he will change after marriage. And nothing works thereafter...


No one ever travels so high as he who knows not where he is going.


Finishing Second is to be First among the ones who lose.
- Ayrton Senna


Take Your Own Time, Not Mine...


The more you judge, the less you love...


Men fall in love with women they are attracted to, and women become attracted to the men they fallen in love with.


Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
-Muhammad Ali


"Do not cry if the Sun sets at the end of the day, because the tears will not let you enjoy the beauty of the Stars."


"You can really have everything you want, if you go after it, but you will have to want it. The desire for success must be so strong within you that it is the very breath of your life - your first though when you awaken in the morning, your last thought when you go to bed at night..."


when a man has put a limit on what he WILL do;he has put a limit on what he CAN do...


If the God pushes you off the clif, there are only two possible things,either he will catch you or he will teach you to fly...


Not all those who wander are lost.


Don't Walk As If You Rule The World;But Walk As If You Don't Mind Who Rules The World...


When is the last time you did something for the first time?!!


If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for? ;-)


"A student who changes the course of history is probably taking an exam."


"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."
(Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)


"When the last tree is cut, the last river poisoned, and the last fish dead, we will discover that we can't eat money."
- GREENPEACE


Those who can do, do.Those who can't, teach.


Don't tell God how big your problems are,tell your problems how big your God is...


The fearless are mearly fearless.People who act in spite of there fear are truely brave.


TRUTHS ABOUT LIFE.
1. Regular naps prevent old age... especially if you take them while driving.
2. Having one child makes you a parent; having two makes you a referee.
3. Marriage is a relationship in which one person is always right and the other is the husband!
4. They said we should all pay our tax with a smile. I tried- but they wanted cash.
5. A child's greatest period of growth is the month after you've purchased new school uniforms.
6. Don't feel bad. A lot of people have no talent.
7. Don't marry the person you want to live with, marry the one you cannot live without... but whatever you do, you'll regret it later.
8. You can't buy love. . But you have to pay heavily for it.
9. True friends stab you in the front.
10. Forgiveness is giving up my right to hate you for hurting me.
11. Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
12. Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
13. My wife and I always compromise. I admit I'm wrong and she agrees with me.
14. Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the job to others.
15. Ladies first. Pretty ladies sooner.
16. It doesn't matter how often a married man changes his job, he still ends up with the same boss.
17. They call our language the mother tongue because the father seldom gets to speak.
18. Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something.
19. Real friends are the ones who survive transitions between address books