13 Feb 2012 sye   » (Journeyer)

selected from 25 fav quotes on journaldev by PANKAJ

* A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. (Doug Linder)

* Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. (Martin Golding

* 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. (Rick Cook)

* 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)

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