Archive for May 17th, 2006

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

Rick Cook
, The Wizardry Compiled

I don’t know who originally said this but it had me in a fit of giggles; and as with most humour there is more than a grain of truth:

“Skill without imagination is called craftmanship – from which we have many beautiful and useful things; a good example would be furniture. Imagination without skill is modern art”.