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A serious coding mailing list pointed me here, and I thought I'd repeat a few while waiting for some code to run. Yes, it's Friday.

Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. (Edward V Berard)

The best method for accelerating a computer is the one that boosts it by 9.8 m/s2. (Anonymous)

Ready, fire, aim: the fast approach to software development. Ready, aim, aim, aim, aim: the slow approach to software development. (Anonymous)

It’s not a bug – it’s an undocumented feature. (Anonymous)

A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. (Doug Linder)
(Oh good, I'm a good programmer. Been almost run down a few times too often.)


Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. (Martin Golding)
It'll be me in six months time - and I know where I live

In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion. (Anonymous)

And one the source missed:
There are 10 sorts of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don't.