On Programmers

06 Jul 2008 · #asides

The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late. -- Seymour Cray

The only thing more frightening than a programmer with a screwdriver or a hardware engineer with a program is a user with a pair of wire cutters and the root password. -- Elizabeth Zwicky

Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs, while the Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning. -- Rich Cook

The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit. -- Anonymous