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When A Program Is Working Perfectly The Programmer Will Not Know What The Heck Is Going On.
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When a program is working perfectly the programmer will not know
what the heck is going on.
-- Murphy's Sixth Law of Programming
Related:
When a computer is most needed it will break down. -- Murphy's Tenth Law of Programming
When a broken appliance is demonstrated to the repair man, it will work perfectly.
-- Murphy's Law No. 29...
First Law of Computer Programming: Any given program, when running, is obsolete.
Any given program, when running, is obsolete. -- The First Law of Computer Programming
Thus spake the master programmer: "When the program is being tested, it is too late to make design changes.
-- The Tao of Programming...
There are some things that are impossible to do, but it is impossible to know what they are.
-- Corollary to Murphy's Law...
A manager was about to be fired, but a programmer who worked for him invented a new program that became popular and sold well.
As a result, the manager retained his job. The manager tried to give the programmer a bonus, but the programmer refused it, saying, "I wrote the program because I though it was an interesting concept, and thus I expect no reward....
A manager asked a programmer how long it would take him to finish the program on which he was working.
I will be finished tomorrow," the programmer promptly replied....
Thus spake the master programmer: "When program is being tested, it is too late to make design changes.
-- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming...