posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 8:44 PM
by
thomasswilliams
OT: Quotable Quotes
Red-Gate Software's Phil Factor links to some programming quotable quotes, and includes nuggets from one of my favorite IT books: Fred Brooks' The Mythical Man-Month (Amazon). I read the 20th Anniversary Edition of this book about 2 years ago and was amazed at how astute Brooks' observations on the computer software industry were, especially for a book written in the 1970's. The problems do not seem to have changed; and I clearly remember thinking at the time - "Hasn't anybody learnt?"
I actually enjoyed TMMM so much I wrote an e-mail to Fred Brooks thanking him, and he took the time to reply to my mail (which raised his already-high credibility with me a lot).
Oh, here's some other "quotable quotes" that I've picked up in the past year or so:
"A manager once said, 'If it is more difficult than plucking a tissue from the Kleenex® box, my staff won't use it!'"
John Terpstra
"Its not a question of time management anymore - I dont have any time left to manage"
http://geekswithblogs.net/ansari/archive/2004/08/30/10391.aspx
“We spent the 90's trying to figure out how to get email…and the 00's trying to figure out how to not get email.”
http://blogs.msdn.com/kclemson/archive/2004/09/17/231085.aspx
"You know why does it take less than one second to search the ENTIRE FREAKING INTERNET and 5 minutes to search my computer for one lousy filename."
Vin Buddy http://geekswithblogs.net/mwatson/archive/2004/10/05/12215.aspx
“Monday is a hard way to spend one-seventh of your life.”
Willem Odendaal http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/willemo/archive/2004/10/11/28212.aspx
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning."
Richard Cook
"The Internet combines the excitement of typing with the reliability of anonymous hearsay."
America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0446532681/diabeticbooks