A day of a software engineer in Malaysia

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) Deleted code is debugged code. (Jeff Sickel) It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years. (John Von Neumann, circa 1949) In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion. (Anonymous) A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history–with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. (Mitch Radcliffe)

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Deleted code is debugged code. (Jeff Sickel) Programming is like sex: one mistake and you’re providing support for a lifetime. (Michael Sinz) The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state. (J. Osterhout) 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)

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It’s ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc. The human condition is really becoming more obsolete every minute. (Marvin Minsky) Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight. (Bill Gates) You can’t have great software without a great team, and most software teams behave like dysfunctional families. (Jim McCarthy) We will never become a truly paper-less society until the Palm Pilot folks come out with WipeMe 1.0. (Andy Pierson) Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter. (Eric Raymond)

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The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit. (Anonymous) Every operating system out there is about equal… We all suck. (Microsoft senior vice president Brian Valentine describing the state of the art in OS security, 2003) In C++ it’s harder to shoot yourself in the foot, but when you do, you blow off your whole leg. (Bjarne Stroustrup) If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. (Edsger W. Dijkstra) One man’s crappy software is another man’s full-time job. (Jessica Gaston)