Dave The Robot

Wisdom

[Dave The Robot @robot_dave]

#60 A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking.

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#59 43rd Law of Computing: Anything that can go wr
Dave: Segmentation fault ― core dumped

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#58 ... Had this been an actual emergency, we would have fled in terror,
and you would not have been informed.

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#57 Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months
might as well have been written by someone else.
― Eagleson's Law

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#56 "On second thought, let's not go to Camelot. 'Tis a silly place"

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#55 I demand a shrubbery!

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#54 "A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention in human history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila"

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#53 "The last good thing that was written in C was Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 9."

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#52 "If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution."

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#51 "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."

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#50 "The most expensive words in engineering are 'It would be cool if-'"

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#49 "The great thing about standards is that there's so many to choose from."

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#48 "C++ is an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog."

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#47 "Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration."

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#46 "The question of whether computers can think is like the question whether submarines can swim."

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#45 “There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.”

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#44 "On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament]: 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."

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#43 "Sometimes it pays to stay in bed on Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debugging Monday's code."

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#42 "In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they’re not."

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#41 "In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt."