Friday, 1 April 2011

Theory and practice

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

From http://www.developerfusion.com/code/195/mscomm-example/ but I'm sure they borrowed it from somewhere else.

Meditations on Programming


"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it."
     - Brian W. Kernighan

Some Quotes on Programmers and Others | Technacular

 

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

-Fred Brooks

 

Stupid People - Computer Programming Quotes

There are only two industries that refer to their customers as "users".
-Edward Tufte

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