It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years. (John Von Neumann, circa 1949) Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more ‘user-friendly’… Their best approach so far has been to take all the old brochures and stamp the words ‘user-friendly’ on the cover. (Bill Gates) A programmer is a person who passes as an exacting expert on the basis of being able to turn out, after innumerable punching, an infinite series of incomprehensive answers calculated with micrometric precisions from vague assumptions based on debatable figures taken from inconclusive documents and carried out on instruments of problematical accuracy by persons of dubious reliability and questionable mentality for the avowed purpose of annoying and confounding a hopelessly defenseless department that was unfortunate enough to ask for the information in the first place. (IEEE Grid newsmagazine) In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion. (Anonymous) I don’t care if it works on your machine! We are not shipping your machine! (Vidiu Platon)

Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. (Edward V Berard) Writing in C or C++ is like running a chain saw with all the safety guards removed. (Bob Gray) That’s the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers. (Larry Niven) The only people who have anything to fear from free software are those whose products are worth even less. (David Emery) Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight. (Bill Gates)