“I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.” My OwnMistakeFindingsProgramI RealizedProgrammingProgrammersComputer ProgrammingProgramming LanguagesComputer LanguageComputer ProgrammersFunny ComputerProgramming FunnyDebuggingCoders Author:Maurice Wilkes
“For the Second Amendment to do its job, the other side must become much better informed. I watched an action-adventure program last night that asserted that the famous AK-47 - the original peoples' rifle (and Authority's greatest mistake) - is rare in this country, and that the only ones here were originally smuggled in from the Middle East, or possibly from South America. The idiots who wrote this mess seemed unaware that after legal imports - mostly from China - were illegally cut off by executive order, they began to be manufactured here.” CountryActionJobsLastsAmericaNightOrderSidesMistakeCuttingMiddleAdventureAuthorityProgramOriginalsSouthChinaEastMessIdiotExecutivesMiddle EastAmendmentsLast NightSecond AmendmentRiflesImportsSouth AmericaExecutive OrdersAk 47 Author:L. Neil Smith
“When is the last time government admitted it might have made a mistake and canceled a program?” MadeGovernmentMightLastsMistakeProgramLast TimeMade A Mistake Author:Thomas Bray
“Sasha gets a raw deal from the press. She makes one mistake in her program and people rip her for not pulling it off when it counts. But she never falls apart. She never just completely folds and misses everything. Usually it's just one mistake.” PeopleFallSportsDealsMistakeMissingProgramPressesJust OnePullingFalling ApartFoldsRipOne Mistake Author:Brian Boitano
“I don't think you could teach someone to be a genius, but you can certainly teach them to not make rookie mistakes and to look at writing the way a writer looks at writing, and not just the way a reader looks at writing. There are a lot of techniques and skills that can be taught that will be helpful to anybody, no matter how gifted they are, and I think writing programs can be very good for people.” PeopleThinkingWayWritingLooksMatterMistakeTeachTaughtReaderGeniusSkillsProgramVery GoodTechniqueHelpfulGiftedRookies Author:Michael Chabon
“Congress is thinking about eliminating a federal program under which scientists broadcast signals to Alien beings. This would be a large mistake. Alien beings have atomic blaster death cannons. You cannot cut off their federal programs as if they were merely poor people.” PeopleIfsThinkingWould BePoorMistakeCuttingProgramScientistCongressAliensSignalsPoor PeopleEliminatingCannons Author:Dave Barry
“Entrepreneurs don't really make mistakes, though. We just make decisions that seem right at the time, but which sometimes turn out to have been the wrong path to take. For example, we allowed a buyer to place a huge opening order and later had to take some product back. We didn't have our sell-through programs in place, so in hindsight, it would have been wiser to sell in less product at the outset. The scary thing is you are always making decisions without knowing the future.” Has BeensSometimesSeemsOrderTurnsDecisionBusinessMistakeKnowingPathExampleProductsHugeProgramSellsEntrepreneurScaryOpeningMaking MistakesWiserHindsightMaking DecisionsBuyersScary ThingsWrong PathKnowing The Future Author:Tom Szaky
“The biggest mistake I see people make is they are not on the right program. You should be circuit training and performing cardio 4-6 days a week (depending on time).” PeopleShouldMistakeWeekTrainingProgramPerformingCircuitsBiggest MistakeCardioCircuit Training Author:Scott Herman
“It is a mistake to think that programmers wares are programs. Programmers have to produce trustworthy solutions and present it in the form of cogent arguments. Programs source code is just the accompanying material to which these arguments are to be applied to.” ThinkingFormMistakeProduceMaterialsSourceSolutionsProgramArgumentCodeProgrammersTrustworthy Author:Edsger Dijkstra
“Make no mistake: Obamacare is a pro-death health program.” MistakeProgramObamacare Author:Kesha Rogers
“One of the great intellectual mistakes Einstein made is that he thought that space and time are physically or ontologically entangled. In the present non-spatial universal computational program, space and time happen to be entangled to the extent that, under certain unique circumstances, changes in spatial measurements indicate changes in temporal ones. However, a change in the program itself may cause space and time to disentangle.” MayMadeHappensCertainCausesSpaceMistakeCircumstancesUniqueIntellectualProgramUniversalTime And SpaceMeasurementSpatial Author:Kedar Joshi
“When it comes to continual improvement programs, the biggest mistake is a failure to launch, the biggest hurdle is culture.” CultureMistakeProgramImprovementHurdleBiggest MistakeContinual Improvement Author:John Novak
“Systems are corporate funded mechanisms for increasing efficiency; programs are user funded mechanisms for increasing effectiveness. Programs should generally be charged back to users, systems should never be. Allocating corporate overhead to the operating units is simply a mistake.” ShouldMistakeProgramCorporateMechanismUsersEfficiencyUnitsEffectivenessOverhead Author:Geoffrey Moore
“My mistakes made were learning how to work with different groups of people. I mean, I went to school at Berkeley, which is a pretty diverse group, but working in a professional setting, I hadn't really done that before and learning about office politics, learning about interactions between different people and I made a lot of mistakes there during my time as a young person. I was 19 or 20 at the time. So, I would say those were my biggest career mistakes, but fortunately they were made in the context of an engineering co-op program and not in a professional field.” PeopleMeanDifferentDoneSchoolMistakeOfficeProgramDiverseMy MistakesBerkeley Author:Leroy Chiao
“They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.” WayWantedSportsMistakeYouthProgramClubsSeventies Author:Casey Stengel
“One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.” PoliticsResultsMistakePolicyJudgingProgramEconomicsIntentionAprilGreat Mistakes Author:Milton Friedman
“As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.” I CanRememberFoundEasyMy OwnMistakeTechnologyFindingsComputerProgramSurpriseI RealizedInstantProgrammingProgrammersComputer ProgrammingProgramming LanguagesEasy To GetComputer LanguageComputer ProgrammersFunny ComputerProgramming FunnyDebuggingCoders Author:Maurice Wilkes