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Programming Quotes |
“ When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.”– Richard Pattis |
“ Simplicity, carried to the extreme, becomes elegance.”– Jon Franklin |
“ Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.”– Edward V Berard |
“ If at first an idea does not sound absurd, then there is no hope for it.”– Albert Einstein |
“ Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.”– Abelson and Sussman |
“ Documentation is like sex; when it's good, it's very, very good, and when it's bad, it's better than nothing”– Dick Brandon |
“ It works on my machine.”– Unknown |
“ 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 |
“ Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.”– Rick Osborne |
“ It’s better to wait for a productive programmer to become available than it is to wait for the first available programmer to become productive.”– Steve McConnell |