"I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing
something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that
I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra
would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality
for me."
Edsger Dijkstra
"If debugging is the process of removing bugs,
then programming must be the process of putting them in."
Edsger Dijkstra
"If the code and the comments disagree, then both
are probably wrong."
Norm Schryer
"Managing senior programmers is like herding cats."
Dave Platt
"Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if
you don't have to fake it."
Seymore Cray (on virtual memory)
"Once you're done writing the code, never open
it again unless you want to see how uncomprehensible and
utterly ridiculous it really is."
Raphael Sazonov
"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that,
once it is competently programmed and working smoothly,
it is completely honest."
Isaac Asimov
"Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have
to support it for the rest of your life."
Michael Sinz
"Software Engineering is that part of Computer
Science which is too difficult for the Computer Scientist."
F. L. Bauer
"The evolution of languages: FORTRAN is a non-typed
language. C is a weakly typed language. Ada is a strongly
typed language. C++ is a strongly hyped language."
Ron Sercely
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