|
|
Software Quotes
They have computers, and they may have other weapons
of mass destruction. (Janet Reno)
If the automobile had followed the same development
cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles
per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. ("Robert X. Cringely",
Computerworld)
It's ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able
to remember 30 million bytes. You know less than a compact disc. The human condition
is really becoming more obsolete every minute. (Marvin Minsky)
I don't think there's anything unique about human
intelligence. All the neurons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions
operate in a binary fashion. (Bill Gates)
My software never has bugs. It just develops random
features.
Software is like sex: it's better when it's free.
(Linus Torvalds)
|
There are no significant bugs in our released software
that any significant number of users want fixed. (Bill Gates)
If you can't make it good, at least make it look
good. (Bill Gates)
If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you
get a boss. He doesn't have tenure. (Bill Gates)
640K ought to be enough for anybody. (Bill Gates)
I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has
to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best
not passed on to one's children. It's not constructive for them. (Bill Gates)
More good code has been written in languages denounced
as “bad” than in languages proclaimed “wonderful”—much more. (Bjarne Stroustrup)
Premature optimization is the root of all evil in
programming. (C.A.R. Hoare)
Programs must be written for people to read, and
only incidentally for machines to execute. (Abelson and Sussman)
Newton was a genius, but not because of the superior
computational power of his brain. Newton's genius was, on the contrary, his ability
to simplify, idealize, and streamline the world so that it became, in some measure,
tractable to the brains of perfectly ordinary men. (Gerald M. Weinberg)
The ideal engineer is a composite … he is not a scientist,
he is not a mathematician, he is not a sociologist, or a writer; but he may use
the knowledge and techniques of any or all of these disciplines in solving engineering
problems. (N. W. Dougherty)
The software isn't finished until all the last user
is dead.
Remember that there is no code faster than no code.
(Taligent's Guide to Designing Programs)
Simplicity is the soul of efficiency. (Austin Freeman)
...it is simplicity that is difficult to make. (Bertholdt
Brecht)
Perfection (in design) is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but rather
when there is nothing more to take away. (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
Smart data structures and dumb code works alot better than the other way around.
(Eric S. Raymond)
The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs
to every temptation and the good one resists it. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident.
That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents. (Nathaniel
S. Borenstein)
Good judgment comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgment. (Frederick
Brooks)
The structure of a system reflects the structure of the organization that built
it. (R. Fairley)
Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming. (Brian Kernighan)
Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the
hole but how many strokes it takes. (H. Mills)
Architect: Someone who knows the difference between that which could be done and
that which should be done (Larry McVoy)
Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons. (Popular Mechanics, forecasting
the relentless march of science, 1949)
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. (Ken Olson, president,
chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp, 1977)
|