"One bad programmer can easily create two new jobs a year."

-- David Parnas

#Jobs Quotes #Years Quotes #Two Quotes

“If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.”

Source : Adrienne Rich (1994). “Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985”, p.105, W. W. Norton & Company
“I don't need a diet pill. I need something that gives you an electric shock when you reach for food.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 26, 2012
“A government is free in proportion to the rights it guarantees to the minority.”
“In the middle of this it was good to have some moments in which whatever was left of you could sit in silence. When you could remember. When the evidence that had gathered could be sorted. And it was a difficulty if another person imagined these moments were their property. Your life got sliced from two sides like a supermarket salami until there was nothing left in the middle. You were the bits that had been given away right and left to others. Because they wanted the piece of you that belonged to them. Because they wanted more. Because they wanted passion. And you did not have it.”
“If you come to work in the Senate, and the morning paper shows that your colleagues in the House have not been permitted to get to work. You know what the speeches will be for two months. It won't be about the evil we're doing in the field in Vietnam; it'll be about law and order in America. And that's crazy.”
“Why does one write these books after all? The drudgery, the misery, the grind, are forgotten everytime; and one launches another, and it seems sheer joy and buoyancy.”
“No one has the right to hear the gospel twice, while there remains someone who has not heard it once.”
“Don't blame me. Tell your mom to move closer. Tell her there's this new club called civilization and you guys should join.”

You may also like:

Alan Perlis
Computer Scientist
Barry Boehm
Software Engineer
Edsger Dijkstra
Computer Scientist
Edward Yourdon
Software Engineer
Fred Brooks
Software Engineer
James G. March
Niklaus Wirth
Computer Scientist
Steve McConnell
Author
Tony Hoare
Computer Scientist