There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.

I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.

FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed - it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.

You think you KNOW when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.

If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.

A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.

Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?