Wit and wisdom of software engineering

If builders built house like the way programmers program code, then the first woodpecker that came along wound destroy the civilization. (Gerald Weinberg)

Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable. (Ralph Johnson)

One man’s crappy software is another man’s full time job. (Jessica Gaston, remind me of Tibco and SAP combo)

Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. (Martin Golding)

Programming is like sex. One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life. (Michael Sinz)

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

It’s a curious thing about I.T. industry: not only do we not learn from our mistakes, we also don’t learn from our successes. (Keith Braithwaite)

There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses. (Bjarne Stroustrup, Java vs. Clojure, huh?)

Don’t worry if it doesn’t work right. If everything did, you’d be out of a job. (Mosher’s Law of Software Engineering, the spirit and motivation coming office every day.)