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Why Are Programmers Non-productive? Because Their Time Is Wasted In Meetings.
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Why are programmers non-productive?
Because their time is wasted in meetings.
Why are programmers rebellious?
Because the management interferes too much.
Why are the programmers resigning one by one?
Because they are burnt out.
Having worked for poor management, they no longer value their jobs.
-- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"
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In the beginning was the Tao. The Tao gave birth to Space and Time.
Therefore, Space and Time are the Yin and Yang of programming....
The master programmer moves from program to program without fear.
No change in management can harm him. He will not be fired, even if the project is canceled....
A novice asked the master: "I perceive that one computer company is much larger than all others.
It towers above its competition like a giant among dwarfs....
A novice asked the Master: "Here is a programmer that never designs, documents, or tests his programs.
Yet all who know him consider him one of the best programmers in the world....
Let the programmers be many and the managers be few then all will be productive.
-- Tao of Programming...
Quote #655 Object-oriented programming is popular in big companies, because it suits the way they write software.
At big companies, software tends to be written by large (and frequently changing) teams of mediocre programmers....
A programmer from a very large computer company went to a software conference and then returned to report to his manager, saying
What sort of programmers work for other companies?...
Documentation is the castor oil of programming. Managers know it must be good because the programmers hate it so much.