Quotations - Random

Quotations - Random

Home › Fortune Cookies › Quotations - Random

Quote #511 * Formal specifications yield correct programs.
No. Formal specifications yield PhD theses. They may also occasionally yield programs as by-products, but no useful ones....
Quote #512 Marketing is the science of convincing us that What You Get Is What You Want.
-- John Carter [ECE@dwaf-hri.pwv.gov.za]...
Quote #513 |-|_ _|-| Hans-Christoph Wirth wirth@informatik.
uni-wuerzburg.de | | |_| | | Veitshöchheim hansi@dianoia....
Quote #514 Basically, I have this theory that there are five kinds of truth.
(This is Joe's Theory of the Five Truths.) There is the truth you tell to casual strangers and acquaintances....
Quote #515 It used to be said [...] that AIX looks like one space alien discovered Unix, and described it to another different space alien who then implemented AIX.
But their universal tra...
Quote #516 [I have an awful suspicion that the answer is "yes, except that now and then it won't work".
John] -- [ the comp.compilers moderator, commenting a question that proposed se...
Quote #517 Cannot handle UTF. The asteroid to kill this dinosaur is still in orbit.
-- from the BUGS section of Plan 9 "lex...
Quote #518 [Wow, that's gross. But it's a good idea. -John]
Quote #519 My favorite PL/I type conversion example
Declare A, B, and C as three-character strings. B='123'...
Quote #520 > Yea, fond memories. COBOL-B ran in 8K, no PERFORM verb, only first 3 > characters of datanames were significant.
That was when ALTER statement was > valuable. 'Fond memories' of time...

< previous

52

53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
69
next >