Citate de programatori – partea III

„Mostly, when you see programmers, they aren’t doing anything. One of the attractive things about programmers is that you cannot tell whether or not they are working simply by looking at them. Very often they’re sitting there seemingly drinking coffee and gossiping, or just staring into space. What the programmer is trying to do is get a handle on all the individual and unrelated ideas that are scampering around in his head.”
Charles M Strauss

 

There are 10 kinds of people in the world – those who understand binary and those who don’t.

 

Pasting code from the internet into production code is like chewing gum found in the street.

 

GOTO is a four letter word.
Edsger W. Dijkstra

 

 

„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