Rob Miles > Quotes

“The user might have grounds for complaint if the program fails to recognise that he has given a stupid value, in fact a number of cases are currently being fought in the United States courts where a program has failed to recognise invalid data, produced garbage and caused a lot of damage.”
― Rob Miles

“It is important that you remember your programs are actually executed by a piece of hardware which has physical limitations.”
― Rob Miles, The C# Programming Yellow Book

“Information about information is called metadata.”
― Rob Miles, The C# Programming Yellow Book

“fees = calc(100);”
― Rob Miles, The C# Programming Yellow Book

“I’d much rather have a program explode in a shower of sparks and flames than silently do the wrong thing.”
― Rob Miles, The C# Programming Yellow Book

“Remember that although the bug is of course impossible, it is happening. This”
― Rob Miles, The C# Programming Yellow Book

“Programmer’s Point: Good programmers are good communicators”
― Rob Miles, The C# Programming Yellow Book