Awesome IT Quotes

Some collection for you people...


Dennis Ritchie :
UNIX is simple. But It just needs a genius to understand its simplicity.

Ralph Johnson :
Before software can be reusable, it first has to be usable.

Fred Brooks :
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Steve McConnell :
It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it;
It's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free.

Bertrand Russell :
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are sure and the
intelligent are full of doubt.

Edsger Dijkstra :
If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be
the process of putting them in.

Bertrand Meyer:
You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic;
You cannot have both at the same time.

Alan J. Perlis: There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third works.

Bill Gates :

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring
aircraft building progress by weight.

Tom Cargill :

The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development
time.
The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the
development time.

Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better
idiot-proof programs.
The Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots.
So far the Universe is winning!

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

The Six Phases of a Project:

1. * Enthusiasm
2. * Disillusionment
3. * Panic
4. * Search for the Guilty
5. * Punishment of the Innocent
6. * Praise for non-participants