September 4, 2006

Programming Quotations

Great collection of Programming Quotations at Eskimo.com (a great Seattle area ISP) Here are four:
Once a new technology starts rolling, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.
~~ Stewart Brand

Programming can be fun, so can cryptography; however they should not be combined.
~~Kreitzberg and Shneiderman

... the designer of a new system must not only be the implementor and the first large-scale user; the designer should also write the first user manual. ... If I had not participated fully in all these activities, literally hundreds of improvements would never have been made, because I would never have thought of them or perceived why they were important.
~~Donald Knuth
And this wonderful one:
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
~~Bertrand Russell
Lots more at the website. Awww -- here are two more (this is a good collection!)
There are only two industries that refer to their customers as "users".
~~Edward Tufte

Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty is intimately related to our ability to process and understand complexity. A language that makes it hard to write elegant code makes it hard to write good code.
~~Eric S. Raymond
Posted by DaveH at September 4, 2006 10:34 PM
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