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We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of
Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.
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All programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery especially attracts those who believe in happy endings and fairy
godmothers. Perhaps the hundreds of nitty frustrations drive away all but those who habitually focus on the end goal. Perhaps
it is merely that computers are young, programmers are younger, and the young are always optimists. But however the selection
process works, the result is indisputable: "This time it will surely run," or "I just found the last bug." (The Mythical Man
Month)
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Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and
boxers versus briefs.
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If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
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If builders built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
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The computing field is always in need of new cliches.
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Asking if computers can think is like asking if submarines can swim.
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The ultimate "computer," our own brain, uses only ten watts of power -- one-tenth the energy consumed by a hundred-watt bulb.
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Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
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