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Quotes From Unmaintainable Code

Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence. (Napoleon)

Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur. - Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone,"it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less." (Lewis Carroll -- Through the Looking Glass, Chapter 6)

The longer it takes for a bug to surface, the harder it is to find. Roedy Green

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. (Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902))

Incorrect documentation is often worse than no documentation. Bertrand Meyer

The cardinal rule of writing unmaintainable code is to specify each fact in as many places as possible and in as many ways as possible. (Roedy Green)

Sedulously eschew obfuscatory hyperverbosity and prolixity.

I don't need to test my programs. I have an error-correcting modem. (Om I. Baud)

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)

Hell is other people. (Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit, 1934)

Programming in Basic causes brain damage. EdsgerWybeDijkstra

If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime. (Anonymous)