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

-Dennis Ritchie

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

-Ralph Johnson

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

-Fred Brooks

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.

-Steve McConnell

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

-Bertrand Russell

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

-Edsger Dijkstra

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

-Bertrand Meyer

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

-Alan J. Perlis

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

-Bill Gates

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.

-Tom Cargill

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.

-Anon

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:

• Enthusiasm
• Disillusionment
• Panic
• Search for the Guilty
• Punishment of the Innocent
• Praise for non-participants

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