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Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. - Rich Cook #100DaysOfCode
In software, we rarely have meaningful requirements. Even if we do, the only measure of success that matters is whether our solution solves the customer’s shifting idea of what their problem is. - Jeff Atwood #100DaysOfCode
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A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention in human history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. - Mitch Ratcliffe #100DaysOfCode
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There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors. - Phil Karlton #100DaysOfCode
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In C it’s harder to shoot yourself in the foot, but when you do, you blow off your whole leg. - Bjarne Stroustrup #100DaysOfCode
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C : Where friends have access to your private members. - Gavin Russell Baker #100DaysOfCode
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Documentation is like sex; when it's good, it's very, very good, and when it's bad, it's better than nothing. - Dick Brandon #100DaysOfCode
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QA Engineer walks into a bar. Orders a beer. Orders 0 beers. Orders 999999999 beers. Orders a lizard. Orders -1 beers. Orders a sfdeljknesv. - Bill Sempf #100DaysOfCode
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PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil, perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals. - Jon Ribbens #100DaysOfCode
Perl – The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption. - Keith Bostic #100DaysOfCode
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don’t believe this to be a coincidence. - Jeremy S. Anderson #100DaysOfCode
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Linux is only free if your time has no value. - Jamie Zawinski #100DaysOfCode
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On two occasions I have been asked, ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.” - Charles Babbage #100DaysOfCode
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law. - Hofstadter’s Law #100DaysOfCode
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Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. - Rich Cook #100DaysOfCode
I’ve noticed lately that the paranoid fear of computers becoming intelligent and taking over the world has almost entirely disappeared from the common culture. Near as I can tell, this coincides with the release of MS-DOS. - Larry DeLuca #100DaysOfCode
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It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC. As potential programmers, they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. - E. W. Dijkstra #100DaysOfCode
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C : Where friends have access to your private members. - Gavin Russell Baker #100DaysOfCode
In C it’s harder to shoot yourself in the foot, but when you do, you blow off your whole leg. - Bjarne Stroustrup #100DaysOfCode
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. - Brian Kernighan #100DaysOfCode
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