Computer programmers Quote by Bertrand Meyer Download Open image “Incorrect documentation is often worse than no documentation.” — Bertrand Meyer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Computer programmers Documentation Funny Inspirational Love Programming
Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing. — Dick Brandon Copy Share Image
The obsessive documentation is itself adjacent to hyper-consumption in our society. The desire to just have everything all the time and adjacent to that… — Ted Leo Copy Share Image
“The success of the documentation efforts lies in the users being able to correctly locate and use the resolutions to their issues on time… — Suyog Ketkar Copy Share Image
Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected. — John Locke Copy Share Image
“A computer program is a message from a man to a machine. The rigidly marshaled syntax and the scrupulous definitions all exist to make… — Frederick P. Brooks Jr Copy Share Image
Even though it is better if the system can be used without documentation, it may be necessary to provide help and documentation. Any such… — Jakob Nielsen Copy Share Image
Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it. — James Levine Copy Share Image
The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
Eiffel borrows quite openly from several earlier programming languages and I am sure that if we had found a good language construct in C… — Bertrand Meyer Copy Share Image
You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time. — Bertrand Meyer Copy Share Image
I think Smalltalk is inappropriate for serious industrial developments. After all, run time is a little late to find out whether you have a… — Bertrand Meyer Copy Share Image
As Mr. Nagle so competently points out, almost no one uses Eiffel; in fact until recently there were only 9 users. But now a… — Bertrand Meyer Copy Share Image
Constants are widely known for the detestable practice of changing their values; we should prepare ourselves against the consequences of such fickleness — Bertrand Meyer Copy Share Image
Correctness is clearly the prime quality. If a system does not do what it is supposed to do, then everything else about it matters… — Bertrand Meyer Copy Share Image
There are only two things wrong with C++: The initial concept and the implementation. — Bertrand Meyer Copy Share Image
Software entities (classes, modules, functions, etc.) should be open for extension, but closed for modification. — Bertrand Meyer Copy Share Image
I have always felt sympathy towards the biologists who accept to debate creationists. Now I also understand them better; one can fight opinions, not… — Bertrand Meyer Copy Share Image
I think once the artistic world of the type designer merged with the scientific world of the computer programmer, you began to see this… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
If you cannot grok the overall structure of a program while taking a shower, you are not ready to code it. — Richard E. Pattis Copy Share Image
When I was at college there were two things I vowed I'd never do. One was go to a funeral and the other was… — Patricia Cornwell Copy Share Image
Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity. — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance. — Robert Coveyou Copy Share Image
Trying to outsmart a compiler defeats much of the purpose of using one. — Brian Kernighan Copy Share Image
Programming languages, like pizzas, come in only too sizes; too big and too small. — Richard E. Pattis Copy Share Image
It's [programming] the only job I can think of where I get to be both an engineer and an artist. There's an incredible, rigorous,… — Andy Hertzfeld Copy Share Image
As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought.… — Maurice Wilkes Copy Share Image
Computer programmers tend, by and large, to be quirky and highly individualistic. Trying to organize or manage such awkward characters is normally as thankless… — John Naughton Copy Share Image
When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
I think that computer programming shows in my writing. Often when I write about computer programmers I'll write about the way that they see… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
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