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Quotations - Random
- Quote #22
``Pointers are like jumps, leading wildly from one part of the data
structure to another.
Their introduction into high-level languages has been...
- Quote #23
German programmers tend to take it as a personal insult when a fault is
detected in code that they have written.
Debora Weber-Wulff weberwu@tfh-berlin.de [comp.risks...
- Quote #24
As an appointed member of the three man committee on the long range future
of COBOL,
which committee was never disbanded, so I assume it...
- Quote #25
"The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness,
Impatience, and
Hubris."
-- Larry Wall in den...
- Quote #26
A successful tool is one that was used to do something undreamed of by its
author.
S. C....
- Quote #27
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't
as easy to get programs right as we had thought.
Debugging had to be
discovered. I can remember the...
- Quote #28
At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first-rate programmers,
a managerial
challenge roughly comparable to herding...
- Quote #29
"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct,
not tried
it."
-- Donald...
- Quote #30
But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the system,
in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed...
- Quote #31
In the long run, every program becomes rococo,
and then rubble.
-- Alan...
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