(No offence meant to anyone.. :))
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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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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
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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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(This is the best 1.....)
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.
-Anon
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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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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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Last but not least ! ....
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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