“Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.”
― The Wizardry Compiled
― The Wizardry Compiled
“Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.”
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“Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.”
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“Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code. ”
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“Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches.”
― Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
― Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
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