Software Quoes

UNIX is simple. But It just needs a genius to understand its simplicity.
-Dennis Ritchie
________________________________________

Before software can be reusable, it first has to be usable.
—Ralph Johnson
________________________________________

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
-Fred Brooks
________________________________________

It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it;
It's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free.
-Steve McConnell
________________________________________

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are sure, and the intelligent are full of doubt.
-Bertrand Russell
________________________________________

If debugging is the process of removing bugs,Then programming must be the process of putting them in..
-Edsger Dijkstra
________________________________________

You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic;
You cannot have both at the same time.
–Bertrand Meyer
________________________________________

There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third works.
-Alan J. Perlis
________________________________________

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
-Bill Gates
________________________________________

The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time.
The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.
-Tom Cargill
________________________________________

Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs.
The Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots.
So far the Universe is winning.
-Anonymous
________________________________________

Theory is when you know something, but it doesn't work.
Practice is when something works, but you don't know why it works.
Programmers combine Theory and Practice:
Nothing works and they don't know why.
________________________________________

The Six Phases of a Project:
• Enthusiasm
• Disillusionment
• Panic
• Search for the Guilty
• Punishment of the Innocent
• Praise for non-participants