Clamberry Blog
Reflections on a career in software development (and, maybe, other sun-dried thoughts)
Blogs I've Written About Software Development
What's In A Name? (2022)
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Favorite Tech Quotations
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think
“I know, I'll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems.
- Attributed to Jamie Zawinski (an early Netscape engineer), 1997.
- Based on an earlier quote from David Tilbrook, 1989 -
If you have a problem and you think awk(1) is the solution, then you have two problems.
- Source of the famous “Now you have two problems” quote
Like I told you the last time you asked, "We're 90% done"
- From a project team I worked with in the late 1980s at Index Technology
“I am an optimist who worries a lot.”
- Madeline Albright, when asked if she was an optimist or a pessimist
(not a tech quotation, but worth including anyway)