Quotes

• "Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant."
  • Scott Adams, Dogbert; Dilbert cartoons

• "XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more."
  • Seen on Slashdot

• "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the program, so if you write the program as cleverly as you can, by definition, you won’t be clever enough to debug it."
  • Kernighan's Law.

• "My grandfather once told me there are two kinds of people:
  Those who do the work and those who take the credit.
  He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition."
  • Indira Gandhi, the late Prime Minister of India

• "The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing."
  • Henry S. Haskins

• "An input file is a user interface"
  • Jason Che-han Yip

• "Use Visio. Like it or not, if you're doing "architecture" diagrams, they will be viewed by "architects." Architects use Visio. Anything less makes us look like amateurs."
  • Scott Shaw, June 22, 2007.

• "[They] waste time, cost money, demoralize and distract your best people, and don't solve problems. They are people who borrow your watch to tell you what time it is and then walk off with it."
  • Robert Townsend on management consultants