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Man kann es kaum glauben, aber da Kommandozeilentools ja bekanntlich nicht lügen, muss es ja so gewesen sein. Dieser Server läuft offenbar schon seit 29 (!) Jahren ohne Reboot durch. Da kann sich die Unix-Welt nochmal was abschauen 🙂

A programmer is walking along a beach and finds a lamp.  He rubs the lamp, and a genie appears.  “I am the most powerful genie in the world.  I can grant you any wish, but only one wish.”

The programmer pulls out a map, points to it and says, “I’d want peace in the Middle East.”

The genie responds, “Gee, I don’t know.  Those people have been fighting for millenia.  I can do just about anything, but this is likely beyond my limits.”

The programmer then says, “Well, I am a programmer, and my programs have lots of users.  Please make all my users satisfied with my software and let them ask for sensible changes.”

At which point the genie responds, “Um, let me see that map again.”

Es gibt jede Menge Zitate die so zutreffend sind, das die Welt um sie herum entstanden zu sein scheint. Auch in der IT. Hier sind ein paar sehr gute.

1. Without requirements or design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file. (Louis Srygley)
2. Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning. (Rick Cook)
3. It’s hard enough to find an error in your code when you’re looking for it; it’s even harder when you’ve assumed your code is error-free. (Steve McConnell)
4. If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. (Edsger Dijkstra)
5. Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen (Edward V Berard)
6. Fine, Java MIGHT be a good example of what a programming language should be like. But 99% of all Java applications are good examples of what applications SHOULD EVER be like. (pixadel)
7. Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight. (Bill Gates)
8. Programmer – an organism that turns coffee into software. Administrator – an organism that turns coffee into working software systems that play tetris against each in different countries. (Unbekannt)
   
9. One man’s crappy software is another man’s full time job.  (Jessica Gaston)
10. Theory and practice sometimes clash. And when that happens, theory loses. Every single time. (Linus Torvalds)