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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>50. "Programming today is a race between software
engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the
universe trying to build bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is
winning." <BR>-- Rick Cook </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>49. "Lisp isn't a language, it's a building
material." <BR>-- Alan Kay. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>48. "Walking on water and developing software from
a specification are easy if both are frozen." <BR>-- Edward V Berard
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>47. "They don't make bugs like Bunny anymore."
<BR>-- Olav Mjelde. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>46. "A programming language is low level when its
programs require attention to the irrelevant." <BR>-- Alan J. Perlis.
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>45. "A C program is like a fast dance on a newly
waxed dance floor by people carrying razors." <BR>-- Waldi Ravens. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>44. "I have always wished for my computer to be as
easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer
figure out how to use my telephone." <BR>-- Bjarne Stroustrup </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>43. “Computer science education cannot make anybody
an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make
somebody an expert painter.” <BR>-- Eric S. Raymond </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>42. “Don’t worry if it doesn’t work right. If
everything did, you’d be out of a job.” <BR>-- Mosher’s Law of Software
Engineering </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>41. “I think Microsoft named .Net so it wouldn’t
show up in a Unix directory listing.” <BR>-- Oktal </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>40. “Fine, Java MIGHT be a good example of what a
programming language should be like. But Java applications are good examples of
what applications SHOULDN’T be like.” <BR>-- pixadel </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>39. “Considering the current sad state of our
computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot
yet be called an engineering discipline.” <BR>-- Bill Clinton </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>38. "The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its
teaching should therefore be regarded as a criminal offense." <BR>-- E.W.
Dijkstra </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>37. "In the one and only true way. The
object-oriented version of 'Spaghetti code' is, of course, 'Lasagna code'. (Too
many layers)." <BR>-- Roberto Waltman. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>36. "FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed — it is
hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer." <BR>-- Alan J. Perlis.
</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>35. “For a long time it puzzled me how something so
expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred to me that
a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things,
while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly
stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.” <BR>-- Bill Bryson
</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>34. "In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C
programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt." <BR>--
Blair P. Houghton. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>33. "When someone says: 'I want a programming
language in which I need only say what I wish done', give him a lollipop."
<BR>-- Alan J. Perlis </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>32. "The evolution of languages: FORTRAN is a
non-typed language. C is a weakly typed language. Ada is a strongly typed
language. C++ is a strongly hyped language." <BR>-- Ron Sercely </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>31. "Good design adds value faster than it adds
cost." <BR>-- Thomas C. Gale </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>30. "Python's a drop-in replacement for BASIC in
the sense that Optimus Prime is a drop-in replacement for a truck." <BR>-- Cory
Dodt </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>29. "Talk is cheap. Show me the code." <BR>-- Linus
Torvalds </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>28. "Perfection [in design] is achieved, not when
there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
<BR>-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>27. "C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success."
<BR>-- Dennis M. Ritchie. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>26. "In theory, theory and practice are the same.
In practice, they’re not." <BR>-- Yoggi Berra </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>25. “You can’t have great software without a great
team, and most software teams behave like dysfunctional families.” <BR>-- Jim
McCarthy </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>24. "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." <BR>-- Jon Ribbens </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>23. "Programming is like kicking yourself in the
face, sooner or later your nose will bleed." <BR>-- Kyle Woodbury </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>22. "Perl – The only language that looks the same
before and after RSA encryption." <BR>-- Keith Bostic </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>21. "It is easier to port a shell than a shell
script." <BR>-- Larry Wall </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>20. "I invented the term 'Object-Oriented', and I
can tell you I did not have C++ in mind." <BR>-- Alan Kay </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>19. "Learning to program has no more to do with
designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with
writing poetry" <BR>-- Ted Nelson </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>18. “The best programmers are not marginally better
than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by
whatever standard: conceptual creativity, speed, ingenuity of design, or
problem-solving ability.” <BR>-- Randall E. Stross </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>17. “If McDonalds were run like a software company,
one out of every hundred Big Macs would give you food poisoning, and the
response would be, ‘We’re sorry, here’s a coupon for two more.’ “ <BR>-- Mark
Minasi </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>16. "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only
proved it correct, not tried it." <BR>-- Donald E. Knuth. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>15. "Computer system analysis is like
child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success."
<BR>-- Tom DeMarco </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>14. "I don't care if it works on your machine! We
are not shipping your machine!" <BR>-- Vidiu Platon. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>13. "Sometimes it pays to stay in bed on Monday,
rather than spending the rest of the week debugging Monday's code." <BR>--
Christopher Thompson </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>12. "Measuring programming progress by lines of
code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight." <BR>-- Bill Gates
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>11. "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." <BR>-- Brian W.
Kernighan. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>10. "People think that computer science is the art
of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing
things that build on each other, like a wall of mini stones." <BR>-- Donald
Knuth </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>9. “First learn computer science and all the
theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack.”
<BR>-- George Carrette </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>8. “Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a
programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.”
<BR>-- Larry Wall </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>7. “Most software today is very much like an
Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no
structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.”
<BR>-- Alan Kay </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>6. “The trouble with programmers is that you can
never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late.” <BR>-- Seymour Cray
</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>5. “To iterate is human, to recurse divine.” <BR>--
L. Peter Deutsch </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>4. "On two occasions I have been asked [by members
of Parliament]: '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." <BR>-- Charles Babbage
</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>3. "Most good programmers do programming not
because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it
is fun to program." <BR>-- Linus Torvalds </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>2. "Always code as if the guy who ends up
maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live."
<BR>-- Martin Golding </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>1. “There are two ways of constructing a software
design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no
deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no
obvious deficiencies.” <BR>-- C.A.R. Hoare</FONT></DIV>
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