THE CODE ISSUE 23
Duda Owner IONOS • July 30, 2015
Here is another one of my favorite quotes from the special double issue of Bloomberg Businessweek on computer coding. This one addresses the painful truth of Murphy’s law (Paul Ford, “The Code Issue”, 6/15/15–6/28/15, p. 90):
“ Programming is debugging. It’s the expectation that things won’t work. This is not something people bring up, just like they don’t bring up their medical history on the first date. ”
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