"Logical Laws & Accurate Axioms" joke
You can always tell a really good idea by the enemies it makes.
-Programmers' axiom
Everything always takes twice as long and costs four times as much as you
planned. -Programmers' axiom
It's never the technical stuff that gets you in trouble, it's the
personalities and the politics. -Programmers' saying
Living with a programmer is easy. All you need is the patience of a saint.
-Programmers' spouses' saying
Applications programming is a race between software engineers, who strive to
produce idiot-proof programs, and the Universe which strives to produce bigger
idiots. -Software engineers' saying
So far the Universe is winning.
-Applications programmers'
saying
The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering
iron, a hardware type with a program patch and a user with an idea.
-Computer saying
You can't do just one thing.
-Campbell's Law of everything
Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-Murphy's law #1024
...and sometimes the real trick is telling the difference.
-Murphy's law #1024a
Whenever you use a jump, be sure of your destination address.
-Programmers' saying
If you eat
a live toad first thing in the morning, nothing worse will happen all day
long.
-California saying
To you or the toad? -Niven's restatement of
California saying
...well, most of the time, anyway.
-Programmers' caveat to
Niven's restatement of
California saying
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