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"We have come through a strange cycle in programming, starting with the creation of programming itself as a human activity. Executives with the tiniest smattering of knowledge assume that anyone can write a program, and only now are programmers beginning to win their battle for recognition as true professionals. Not just anyone, with any background, or any training, can do a fine job of programming. Programmers know this, but then why is it that they think that anyone picked off the street can do documentation? One has only to spend an hour looking at papers written by graduate students to realize the extent to which the ability to communicate is not universally held. And so, when we speak about computer program documentation, we are not speaking about the psychology of computer programming at all - except insofar as programmers have the illusion that anyone can do a good job of documentation, provided he is not smart enough to be a programmer." »Gerald Weinberg, "The Psychology of Computer Programming"
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"The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one." »H.L. Mencken
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"From error to error one discovers the entire truth." »Sigmund Freud
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"From error to error, one discovers the entire truth." »Sigmund Freud
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"Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process, and nature in marking man's papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and by the quality of life of those who survive." »Dr. Jonas Salk
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"If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth." »Hans Reichenbach
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"programming is modelisation of real life." »Fode Toure
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"programming is like sex one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life." »Michael Sinz
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"If debugging is the art of removing bugs, then programming must be the art of inserting them." »Unknown
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"[End of diatribe. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming...]" »Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
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"programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals." »Henry Spencer
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"BASIC - A programming language. Related to certain social diseases in that those who have it will not admit it in polite company." »Anonymous
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"It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration." »Professor Edsger Dijkstra
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"Goto, n.: A programming tool that exists to allow structured programmers to complain about unstructured programmers." »Ray Simard
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"If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether X is an integer or a real number, we can begin to focus on programming as a source of ideas." »Harold Abelson
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"The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free." »Charles R. Swindoll
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"As soon as we started programming, we found out to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs." »Maurice Wilkes
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"programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." »Rich Cook
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"programming today is a race between software engineers stirring to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning." »Unknown
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"An apprentice carpenter may want only a hammer and saw, but a master craftsman employs many precision tools. Computer programming likewise requires sophisticated tools to cope with the complexity of real applications, and only practice with these tools will build skill in their use." »Robert L. Kruse, Data Structures and Program Design
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"If ever an error had 'F' written on it, that grounder did." »Jerry Coleman
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"error: No such quotation number." »
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"error is discipline through which we advance." »William Ellery Channing
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"Delay is preferable to error." »Thomas Jefferson
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"As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." »Weisert
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"It's a basehit on the error by Roberts." »Jerry Coleman
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"An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains." »Henri Frdric Amiel
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"Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error." »Johann von Goethe
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"If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part." »Richard Phillips Feynman
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"It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry." »Thomas Paine
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