Sunday, November 30, 2014
Saturday, November 29, 2014
Fortune Quote #848
He's like a function -- he returns a value, in the form of his opinion.
It's up to you to cast it into a void or not. -- Phil Lapsley
It's up to you to cast it into a void or not. -- Phil Lapsley
Friday, November 28, 2014
Thursday, November 27, 2014
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
Fortune Quote #845
Every program has at least one bug and can be shortened by at least one
instruction -- from which, by induction, one can deduce that every program
can be reduced to one instruction which doesn't work.
instruction -- from which, by induction, one can deduce that every program
can be reduced to one instruction which doesn't work.
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Fortune Quote #844
Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature,
because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the
software engineer. -- Fred Brooks
because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the
software engineer. -- Fred Brooks
Monday, November 24, 2014
Fortune Quote #843
Counting in binary is just like counting in decimal -- if you are all
thumbs. -- Glaser and Way
thumbs. -- Glaser and Way
Sunday, November 23, 2014
Saturday, November 22, 2014
Fortune Quote #841
But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the
system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed, analyzed,
and replaced with new weaknesses. -- Bruce Leverett, "Register
Allocation in Optimizing Compilers"
system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed, analyzed,
and replaced with new weaknesses. -- Bruce Leverett, "Register
Allocation in Optimizing Compilers"
Friday, November 21, 2014
Fortune Quote #840
As soon as we started programming, we found 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, designer of EDSAC, on
programming, 1949
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, designer of EDSAC, on
programming, 1949
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