That's a great question, and after reading it, I totally needed to write down my own collection of programming wisdom.
“The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris” ― Larry Wall, There are only two really difficult things in programming: cache invalidation, naming things and off by one errors. UNIX is sexy: who | grep -i single | date ; cd ~ ; unzip ; touch ; strip ; finger ; mount ; gasp ; yes ; uptime ; unmount ; sleep Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems. There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don’t believe this to be a coincidence.”
“The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris” ― Larry Wall,
There are only two really difficult things in programming: cache invalidation, naming things and off by one errors.
UNIX is sexy: who | grep -i single | date ; cd ~ ; unzip ; touch ; strip ; finger ; mount ; gasp ; yes ; uptime ; unmount ; sleep
who | grep -i single | date ; cd ~ ; unzip ; touch ; strip ; finger ; mount ; gasp ; yes ; uptime ; unmount ; sleep
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don’t believe this to be a coincidence.”
Even more at ➡ jmfayard.dev/programming-quotes/
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That's a great question, and after reading it, I totally needed to write down my own collection of programming wisdom.
Even more at ➡ jmfayard.dev/programming-quotes/