Es gibt jede Menge Zitate die so zutreffend sind, das die Welt um sie herum entstanden zu sein scheint. Auch in der IT. Hier sind ein paar sehr gute.
- Without requirements or design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file. (Louis Srygley)
- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning. (Rick Cook)
- 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)
- If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. (Edsger Dijkstra)
- Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen (Edward V Berard)
- Fine, Java MIGHT be a good example of what a programming language should be like. But 99% of all Java applications are good examples of what applications SHOULD EVER be like. (pixadel)
- Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight. (Bill Gates)
- Programmer – an organism that turns coffee into software. Administrator – an organism that turns coffee into working software systems that play tetris against each in different countries. (Unbekannt)
- One man’s crappy software is another man’s full time job. (Jessica Gaston)
- Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time. (Linus Torvalds)