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In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion. (Anonymous) First learn computer science and all the theory. Next develop a programming style. Then forget all that and just hack. (George Carrette) There is no programming language–no matter how structured–that will prevent programmers from making bad programs. (Larry Flon) Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork. (Sam Ewing) One man’s crappy software is another man’s full-time job. (Jessica Gaston)

To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer. (Paul Ehrlich) Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs, while the Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots. So far the Universe is winning. (Rich Cook) I’ve noticed lately that the paranoid fear of computers becoming intelligent and taking over the world has almost entirely disappeared from the common culture. Near as I can tell, this coincides with the release of MS-DOS. (Larry DeLuca) Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. (Edward V Berard) If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution. (Robert Sewell)