Quotations - Random

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Quote #21 One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
-- Robert Firth...
Quote #22 ``Pointers are like jumps, leading wildly from one part of the data structure to another.
Their introduction into high-level languages has been a step backwards from which we ma...
Quote #23 German programmers tend to take it as a personal insult when a fault is detected in code that they have written.
-- -- Debora Weber-Wulff weberwu@tfh-berlin.de [comp.risks 16.94] ...
Quote #25 "The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris.
-- Larry Wall in den Perl5-Manpage...
Quote #26 A successful tool is one that was used to do something undreamed of by its author.
-- S. C. Johnso...
Quote #27 As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought.
Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exa...
Quote #28 At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first-rate programmers, a managerial challenge roughly comparable to herding cats.
-- The Washington Post Magazine, June 9, 1985...
Quote #29 "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
-- Donald Knuth...
Quote #30 But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed, analyzed, and replaced with new weaknesses.
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