Tag: analogies

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

— Bill Gates


Java is to JavaScript as car is to carpet.

— Chris Heilmann, christianheilmann.com

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

— Edsger W. Dijkstra


Nine people can’t make a baby in a month.

— Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month

If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along wound destroy civilization.

— Gerald Weinberg


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