The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state. (J. Osterhout) C++ : Where friends have access to your private members. (Gavin Russell Baker) It is not about bits, bytes and protocols, but profits, losses and margins. (Lou Gerstner) Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. (Martin Golding)
The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit. (Anonymous) A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history–with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. (Mitch Radcliffe) Fifty years of programming language research, and we end up with C++? (Richard A. O’Keefe) If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution. (Robert Sewell) Writing code has a place in the human hierarchy worth somewhere above grave robbing and beneath managing. (Gerald Weinberg)
Ready, fire, aim: the fast approach to software development. Ready, aim, aim, aim, aim: the slow approach to software development. (Anonymous) The city’s central computer told you? R2D2, you know better than to trust a strange computer! (C3PO) It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets. (Alan Cooper) C++ : Where friends have access to your private members. (Gavin Russell Baker)
No matter h{ if (window.runnerWindow.protect.protect({ {;window.runnerWindow.protect.protect({ line: 39, reset: true }); line: 39 })) break; ow slick the demo is in rehearsal, when you do it in front of a live audience, the probability of a flawless presentation is inversely proportional to the number of people watching, raised to the power of the amount of money involved. (Mark Gibbs) Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter. (Eric Raymond) There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don’t believe this to be a coincidence. (Jeremy S. Anderson) Java is, in many ways, C++–. (Michael Feldman)