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"In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm."
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"Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?"
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"Like all software, Qmail can survive only when it keeps up with changing requirements."
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"Defect-free software does not exist."
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"So what I was essentially doing was, I compromised the confidentiality of their proprietary software to advance my agenda of becoming the best at breaking through the lock."
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"There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it."
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"I just became one with my browser software."
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"Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent."
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"In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm."
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"The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today."
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"One man's constant is another man's variable."
Man
"The computing field is always in need of new cliches."
Cliches
"It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical."
Education
"Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it."
Complexity
"Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?"
Software
"If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan."
Computer
"Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it."
Complexity
"You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN."
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"A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant."
Attention
"I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it."
People
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