Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, and a dash of irony.
I code, therefore I am... confused most of the time.
I'm a programmer, which means I solve problems you didn't know you had in ways you can't understand.
The irony of a perfect code is that no one believes it exists.
Unveiling Truths, Nurturing Minds, Inspiring Wisdom.
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2024-07-26.
1. From bugs to puns: Wise Programmer's ironic take on the coding universe.
A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
- Alan Turing
"It is the mark of a charalatan to explain a simple concept in a complex way."
Software obeys the law of gaseous expansion - it continues to grow until memory is completely filled.
-- Larry Gleason
My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what’s really going on to be scared.
-- P. J. Plauger, Computer Language, March 1983
An evolving system increases its complexity unless work is done to reduce it.
-- Meir Lehman
2. Binary irony: we speaks the language of sarcastic code.
You want to make your way in the CS field? Simple. Calculate rough time of amnesia (hell, 10 years is plenty, probably 10 months is plenty), go to the dusty archives, dig out something fun, and go for it. It’s worked for many people, and it can work for you.
-- Ron Minnich
Increasingly, people seem to interpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling - the incomprehensible should cause suspicion, not admiration. Possibly this results from the mistaken belief that using a mysterious device confers [extra] power on the user.
-- Niklaus Wirth
That's what's cool about working with computers. They don't argue, they remember everything, and they don't drink all your beer.
-- Paul Leary
So much complexity in software comes from trying to make one thing do two things.
-- Ryan Singer
The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra
3. Sarcasm: The only language all programmers speak fluently.
Tests are the Programmer's stone, transmuting fear into boredom.
-- Kent Beck
Compatibility means deliberately repeating other people’s mistakes.
-- David Wheeler
The first rule of functions is that they should be small. The second rule of functions is that they should be smaller than that.
-- Robert C. Martin
Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.
-- Burt Rutan
The standard rule is, when you're in a hole, stop digging; that seems not to apply to software nowadays.
-- Ron Minnich