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Programming is like sex. One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life. (Michael Sinz)
Deleted code is debugged code. (Jeff Sickel)
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. (Edward V Berard)
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. (Edsger Dijkstra)
Software undergoes beta testing shortly before it’s released. Beta is Latin for “still doesn’t work. (Anonymous)
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. (Anonymous)
It’s a curious thing about our industry: not only do we not learn from our mistakes, we also don’t learn from our successes. (Keith Braithwaite)
There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses. (Bjarne Stroustrup)
In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion. (Anonymous)
The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren’t there. (Gordon Bell)