Parallel Universe

“Programming can be fun, so can cryptography; however they should not be combined.”

Kreitzberg and Shneiderman

“In a room full of top software designers, if two agree on the same thing, that’s a majority.”

– Bill Curtis

“In a software project team of 10, there are probably 3 people who produce enough defects to make them net negative producers.”

– Gordon Schulmeyer

“Mostly, when you see programmers, they aren’t doing anything.  One of the attractive things about programmers is that you cannot tell whether or not they are working simply by looking at them.  Very often they’re sitting there seemingly drinking coffee and gossiping, or just staring into space.  What the programmer is trying to do is get a handle on all the individual and unrelated ideas that are scampering around in his head.”

– Charles M. Strauss

“Today, most software exists, not to solve a problem, but to interface with other software.”

– IO Angell

“It has been discovered that C++ provides a remarkable facility for concealing the trivial details of a program — such as where its bugs are.”

– David Keppel

“If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as ‘lines produced’ but as ‘lines spent.’”

– Edsger Dijkstra

“Program testing can be a very effective way to show the presence of bugs, but is hopelessly inadequate for showing their absence.”

– Edsger Dijkstra