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Computer Programming Quotes
- pj 17y agoWhen I read #31, I started crying... weird.
- mildweed 17y agoGreat combo: 27 & 30 "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." "It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter." And for wholehearted agreement: 58 "Good specifications will always improve programmer productivity far better than any programming tool or technique."
- jcl 17y ago"The best way to predict the future is to implement it." - David Heinemeier Hansson Heh... I was going to call this one out for being a restatement of Alan Kay's 1971 quote, but it seems someone beat me to it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=412440 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=412440