the road to programming hell is paved with global variables,

“When you link to multiple JavaScript files from your page, all the global variables are defined in the same global space.”

— Eric Freeman

“undefined and NaN are not constants. They are global variables, and you can change their values. That should not be possible, and yet it…

— Douglas Crockford

There's a story about how the program is organized, there's a story about the context in which the program is expected to operate. And…

— Guy Steele

... programming requires more concentration than other activities. It's the reason programmers get upset about 'quick interruptions' - such interruptions are tantamount to asking…

— Steve McConnell

“You should imagine variables as tentacles, rather than boxes. They do not contain values; they grasp them—two variables can refer to the same value.”

— Marijn Haverbeke

“usually more time is spent in making good-looking presentation slides than in improving the quality of the software.”

— Steve McConnell

The job of the average manager requires a shift in focus every few minutes. The job of the average software developer requires that the…

— Steve McConnell

“With great goals, comes the high costs; both fixed and variable. Time is the fixed cost; efforts, variable. Spend passionately.”

— Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma

I believe that it may be normal, healthy, and even productive to experience mild to moderate depression from time to time as part of…

— Andrew Weil

We’re never gonna understand women. They’re way too complex. You’ve got too many variables to consider. PMS, bad hair days, miscellaneous mood swings .…

— Susane Colasanti

Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in…

— Meg Whitman

The difference is that we have the hardest and most painful evidence that there was a Holocaust. But, for the global warming scenario that…

— Thomas Sowell

Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does not denounce;…

— C. Wright Mills

As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in any way…

— Karl Marx