(3160 quotes found)
“Anna (Nicole Smith) would make a good fame-prevention spokesperson in high schools, should such a program ever come into existence”
Carina Chocano
“APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.”
Edsger Dijkstra
“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
“Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals”
Henry Spencer
“Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.”
Edward Berard
“There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.”
Werner von Braun
“Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.”
Rick Osborne
“Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month.”
“This Event is a good test for any program because there are teams in it every year who compete for the national championship. Plus it's a great chance to support the fight against cancer. There aren't any of us anywhere that haven't been touched in some way by cancer.”
Bob Knight
“Recruiting is the lifeblood of any program, so you can't put anything above that, ... But it wouldn't matter who you had here if you didn't have the right mental attitude and work ethic. You need all those elements to come together to do something like we are doing.”
Pete Carroll
