Da jeg formoder steampunk.dk har et par læsere med IT kundskab, så tillader jeg mig at bringe en serie citater fra folk udi denne teknologi. Læsere uden den dybere IT baggrund, kan godt læse med alligevel, da et par af citaterne ikke nødvendigvis er specifikt relateret til IT teknologi.
- It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.
– Hofstadter’s Law
- 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.
– Brian Kernighan
- Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
– Bill Gates
- 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.
– Jon Ribbens
- On two occasions I have been asked, ‘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.
– Charles Babbage
- Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
– Rick Osborne
- 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.
– Rich Cook
- I don’t care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine!
– Ovidiu Platon
- A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention in human history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
– Mitch Ratcliffe
- XML is like violence – if it doesn’t solve your problems, you are not using enough of it.
– Unknown
- You should name a variable using the same care with which you name a first-born child.
– James O. Coplien
- A programmer is a device that converts caffeine into error messages.
– Unknown
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