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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