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Quote #41 As practiced by computer science, the study of programming is an unholy mixture of mathematics, literary criticism, and folklore.
-- B. A. Sheil, 1981...
Quote #42 No one who has been a programmer can escape the conclusion that computers highlight our inability to communicate.
-- Mike Walsh (Infosystems, Nov 87 P. 43 ["Where the Rubber Mee...
Quote #43 "First learn computer science and all the theory.
Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack." -- George Carrette...
Quote #44 I'm wary of managers who want to "comprehend easily" any arbitrarily complicated topic.
ake operating systems. managers choose Microsoft because everybody else does. take pro...
Quote #45 I believe it was Andrew Koenig who commented that purists who accept no compromises in programming languages use either machine code or lambda calculu
) -- Kevlin A P Henney...
Quote #46 A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do.
-- Dennis M. Ritchie...
Quote #47 A Law of Computer Programming: Make it possible for programmers to write in English and you will find the programmers cannot write in English.
Quote #48 "For every complex question, there is a simple answer-- and it's wrong.
-- H.L. Mencke...
Quote #49 "Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dav...
Quote #50 I cannot overemphasize the importance of good grammar.
What a crock. I could easily overemphasize the importance of good grammar....

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