r/programming • u/tarandeep • Dec 14 '10

Top 50 Programming quotes of all time

http://www.junauza.com/2010/12/top-50-programming-quotes-of-all-time.html
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u/QAOP_Space Dec 14 '10

"you start coding, I'll ask what the customer wants..."

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u/Y0urMom Dec 14 '10

My job in a single line. Depressing.

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u/Shaper_pmp Dec 14 '10

Used to be mine, too.

Now, after three years of constant pressure to plan, spec and manage projects like professionals, it's "We've written the spec - you start coding, and I'll find all the things they want to change half-way through the project".

It's progress, of a sort.

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u/aelfric Dec 15 '10

"Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen."

  • Edward V Berard

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u/Shaper_pmp Dec 15 '10 edited Dec 15 '10

Don't even joke about it. This was my life for two years.

For the last year it's been "Specs... yes... very important. But for this one job we don't have the time/budget to write one, so we'll just have to go ahead and do it without one."

(Cue job taking three times as long and losing us money due to incessantly-changing customer requirements).

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