The Elegant Art of Programming

BSCS 1992 Wentworth Institute of Technology
 
Originally from the Boston (MA) area. Lived in SoCal for a while. Now in the Phoenix (AZ) area.
 
OpenVMS enthusiast, ISO 8601 evangelist, photographer, opinionated SOB
 
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"If you need help knowing what to think, let me know and I'll tell you." -- Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]
 

"Typing is no substitute for thinking." -- R.W. Hamming
 
"I find it appalling that you can become a programmer with less training than it takes to become a plumber." -- Bjarne Stroustrup
 
ZagNut’s Law: Arrogance is inversely proportional to ability.
 
"Well blow me sideways with a plastic marionette. I've just learned something new - and if I could award you a 100 for that post I would. Way to go you keyboard lovegod you." -- Pete O'Hanlon
 
"linq'ish" sounds like "inept" in German -- Andreas Gieriet
 

"Things would be different if I ran the zoo." -- Dr. Seuss
 
"Wrong is evil, and it must be defeated." – Jeff Ello
 
"A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logical thinking, and on pedantic exactness." -- Nigel Shaw
 

"Omit needless local variables." -- Strunk... had he taught programming
 
"DON'T BE LIBERAL IN WHAT YOU ACCEPT!"
 
"Software Engineers don't have Trophy Wives; they have Presentation Layers."
 
"We learn more from our mistakes than we do from getting it right the first time."
 
"I'm an old dog and I like old tricks."
 
"Sometimes the envelope pushes back and sometimes you get a really nasty paper cut."
 
"A method shall have one and only one return statement."
 
My first rule of debugging: "If you get a different error message, you're making progress."
 
My golden rule of database management: "Do not unto others' databases as you would not have done unto yours."
 
My general rule of software development: "Design should be top-down, but implementation should be bottom-up."
 
"Today's heresy is tomorrow's dogma."
or
"Today's dogma is yesterday's heresy."