Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology…
Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defence against complexity.
– David Gelernter
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
– Edsger W. Dijkstra
In computer science, we stand on each other's feet.
– Brian Reid
From http://quotes.cat-v.org/programming/.
posted by Jonathan at
7/04/2009 12:28:00 a.m.
2 Comments:
Seems like a good excuse to trot out my favorite programming quotes! Both from Nathaniel Borenstein ...
"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."
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Thomas David Baker, at 7/04/2009 8:32 p.m.
Haha—nice!
By
Jonathan, at 7/04/2009 9:23 p.m.
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