Quotes by Intellectuals

1. UNIX is simple. But It just needs a genius to understand its simplicity.

- Dennis Ritchie

2. Before software can be reusable, it first has to be usable.

—Ralph Johnson

3. Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

-Fred Brooks

4. It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it;

It's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free.

-Steve McConnell

5. The trouble with the world is that the stupid are sure,

and the intelligent are full of doubt.

-Bertrand Russell

6. (This is the best 1.....)

If debugging is the process of removing bugs,

Then programming must be the process of putting them in..

-Edsger Dijkstra

7. You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic;

You cannot have both at the same time.

–Bertrand Meyer

8. There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third works.

-Alan J. Perlis

9. Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring

aircraft building progress by weight.

-Bill Gates

10. The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 10% of the development time.

The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.

-Tom Cargill

11. Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs.

The Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots.

So far the Universe is winning.

-Anonymous

12. Theory is when you know something, but it doesn't work.

Practice is when something works, but you don't know why it works.

Programmers combine Theory and Practice:

Nothing works and they don't know why.

13. The Six Phases of a Project:

· Enthusiasm

· Disillusionment

· Panic

· Search for the Guilty

· Punishment of the Innocent

· Praise for non-participants