+TheBF Posted June 21, 2017 Share Posted June 21, 2017 I was just reading a paper on porting systems and it included these two quotes by famous computer scientists. Thought I would share here. I love the 1st one! And I have some experience to prove he's correct. "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." (Brian Kernighan) "The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague." (Edsger Dijkstra) 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apersson850 Posted June 21, 2017 Share Posted June 21, 2017 "When you think too much about something, you may create problems that weren't there from the beginning." (Winnie the Poh) 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willsy Posted June 21, 2017 Share Posted June 21, 2017 "Subtract complexity, addresses lightness" (or something like that) Charles Moore Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
senior_falcon Posted June 21, 2017 Share Posted June 21, 2017 (edited) Il semble que la perfection soit atteinte non quand il n'y a plus rien à ajouter, mais quand il n'y a plus rien à retrancher. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery or in English: "Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away" Edited June 22, 2017 by senior_falcon 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparkdrummer Posted June 21, 2017 Share Posted June 21, 2017 KISS FUBAR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+adamantyr Posted June 21, 2017 Share Posted June 21, 2017 "Good design adds value faster than it adds cost" - Thomas C. Gale Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RXB Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 People love complicated stuff, no one was ever fascinated with a Crescent Wrench. Motorcycle USA 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 Modify Until No Good: MUNG 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willsy Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 Il semble que la perfection soit atteinte non quand il n'y a plus rien à ajouter, mais quand il n'y a plus rien à retrancher. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery or in English: "Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away" This is great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 Modify Until No Good: MUNG It's kinda like that pasta dish that didn't come out right from the very beginning. You keep adding spices and butter and toppings and cheese till it becomes a horrid mess. Then start over after 2 hours wasted time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinphaltimus Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 “ If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. ” - Edsger Dijkstra 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digdugnate Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 "I invented the term 'Object-Oriented', and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind." - Alan Kay 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willsy Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 "C++ is shit" Mark Wills 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willsy Posted June 23, 2017 Share Posted June 23, 2017 "Forth is truth" Mark Wills (I literally just said it just now. Okay it's not famous but from small acorns...) 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+TheBF Posted June 23, 2017 Author Share Posted June 23, 2017 "I invented the term 'Object-Oriented', and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind." - Alan Kay Oh I like that one a lot! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+TheBF Posted June 23, 2017 Author Share Posted June 23, 2017 "Forth is truth" Mark Wills (I literally just said it just now. Okay it's not famous but from small acorns...) Lol. It sounds Friday evening has started in Uk.? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+TheBF Posted July 8, 2017 Author Share Posted July 8, 2017 "It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC as potential programmers. They are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration." Edsger W. Dijkstra As demonstrated by many people here, it's not impossible, but this statement emphasizes the point that the BASIC language paradigm alters the perspective of programming enough that you must fight hard against it to learn a new programming language model Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Vorticon Posted July 8, 2017 Share Posted July 8, 2017 Why did the chicken cross the road? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+TheBF Posted July 8, 2017 Author Share Posted July 8, 2017 In Canada, to get to the middle.? I'll bite. Why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+nanochess Posted July 8, 2017 Share Posted July 8, 2017 Why did the chicken cross the road?Because there was a TI99/4A with games in the other side. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevEng Posted July 8, 2017 Share Posted July 8, 2017 Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. --Albert EinsteinSimplicity is the ultimate sophistication. --Leonardo da Vinci Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Vorticon Posted July 8, 2017 Share Posted July 8, 2017 Because there was a TI99/4A with games in the other side. That works 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Vorticon Posted July 8, 2017 Share Posted July 8, 2017 In Canada, to get to the middle. I'll bite. Why? He was trying to move Forth 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1980gamer Posted July 8, 2017 Share Posted July 8, 2017 Why did the chicken cross the road? Because I was pushing up on the joystick while playing freeway on my 2600? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted July 8, 2017 Share Posted July 8, 2017 He was being chased by a chicken-eating alligator. . . 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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