工程師語錄

雖然現在已從技術顧問轉為PM

但仍在語錄中看到貼近心聲的話

1. 一個好的工程師是那種過單行道馬路都要左顧右盼的人。（Doug Linder）
A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. (Doug Linder)

2. 程式有問題時不要擔心。如果所有東西都沒問題，你就失業​​了。（軟體工程的 Mosher 定律）
Don’t worry if it doesn't work right. If everything did, you’d be out of a job. (Mosher’s Law of Software Engineering)

3. 工程師的麻煩在於，你無法弄清他在折騰什麼，當你最終弄明白時，也許已經太遲了。（超級電腦之父 Seymour Cray）
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late. (Seymour Cray)

4. 一個人寫的爛軟體將會給另一個人帶來一份全職工作。（Jessica Gaston）
One man’s crappy software is another man’s full time job. (Jessica Gaston)

5. 如果建築工人像工程師寫軟體那樣蓋房子，那第一隻飛來的啄木鳥就能毀掉人類文明。（Gerald Weinberg）
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along wound destroy civilization. (Gerald Weinberg)

6. 這世界最有可能毀滅的方式——大多數專家都同意——是由意外造成。這就是為什麼會有我們，我們是電腦專家，我們創造意外。（Nathaniel Borenstein）
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That’s where we come in; we’re computer professionals. We cause accidents. (Nathaniel Borenstein)

7. 我們這個產業有個特別奇怪的現象：我們不但不會從失敗裡吸取教訓，同時也不從成功中學習經驗。（Keith Braithwaite）
It’s a curious thing about our industry: not only do we not learn from our mistakes, we also don’t learn from our successes. (Keith Braithwaite)

8. 如果​​沒能一次成功，那就叫它 1.0 版吧。（unknown）
If at first you don’t succeed, call it version 1.0 (unknown)

9. 所有的工程師都是編劇，所有的電腦都是爛演員。（Anonymous Hack Actor）
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors. (Anonymous Hack Actor)

10. 工作進度上越快落後，你就會有越充足的時間趕上。（Anonymous Scheduler）
The sooner you get behind in your work, the more time you have to catch up. (Anonymous Scheduler)

11. 任何你寫的程式，超過 6 個月不去看它，當你再度開啓時，看起來都像是別人寫的。（Eagleson's law）
Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else. (Eagleson's law)

12. 軟體就像做愛。一次犯錯，你需要用剩下的一生來彌補。（Michael Sinz）
Programming is like sex. One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life. (Michael Sinz)

13. 在水上行走和按照特定需求開發開發軟體都很容易——前提是它們都是凍結狀態。（Edward V Berard）
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen. (Edward V Berard)

14. 註釋程式很像清掃廁所——你不想幹，但如果你做了，這絕對會給你和你的客人帶來更愉悅的體驗。（Ryan Campbell）
Commenting your code is like cleaning your bathroom — you never want to do it, but it really does create a more pleasant experience for you and your guests. (Ryan Campbell)

15. 如今的程式是一場工程師和上帝的競賽，工程師要開發出更大更好、傻瓜都會用到軟體。而上帝在努力創造出更大更傻的傻瓜。目前為止，上帝是贏的。（Rick Cook）
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)

16. 軟體設計最困難的部分⋯⋯是阻擋新功能的引入。（Donald Norman）
The hardest part of design … is keeping features out. (Donald Norman)

17. 世上只有兩類程式語言：那些被人批得一無是處的，以及那些沒人使用的。（Bjarne Stroustrup）
There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses. (Bjarne Stroustrup)

18. 關於布林值最棒的一點是，即使你搞錯了，也只差一個位元（a bit，此為雙關語，英文「一點點」之意，也是電腦術語「位元」的意思）。（Anonymous）
The best thing about a boolean is even if you are wrong, you are only off by a bit.

19. Java 之於 JavaScript 的關係就如同狗和熱狗。（英文是 Car 與 Carpet）。（Chris Heilmann）
Java is to JavaScript what Car is to Carpet. (Chris Heilmann)

20. 這不是個 bug——這一個未註明的功能特徵。（Anonymous）
It’s not a bug – it’s an undocumented feature. (Anonymous)

21. 沒有需求或設計，寫程式就是一種將 bug 添加到一個空白文件裡的藝術。（Louis Srygley）
Without requirements or design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file. (Louis Srygley)

22. 爛程式並不爛，只是被誤解了。（Anonymous Code Behaviorist）
Bad code isn’t bad, its just misunderstood. (Anonymous Code Behaviorist)

23. 有兩種方法能寫出沒有錯誤的程式；但只有第三種好用。（Alan J. Perlis）
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works. (Alan J. Perlis)

24. 軟體能夠反覆使用之前，它必須要先可以用。（Ralph Johnson）
Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable. (Ralph Johnson)

25. 軟體通常在 beta 測試完成不久後發表。Beta 在拉丁語中是「還不能用」的意思。（Anonymous）
Software undergoes beta testing shortly before it’s released. Beta is Latin for “still doesn't work". (Anonymous)

26. 最便宜、最快速、最值得信賴的組件是那些還未出現的組件。（Gordon Bell）
The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there. (Gordon Bell)

27. 軟體和教堂非常相似——建成之後我們就開始祈禱。（Sam Redwine）
Software and cathedrals are much the same – first we build them, then we pray. (Sam Redwine)

28. 除非最後一個使用者死掉，軟體是不會有完工的時候的。（Anonymous）
The software isn’t finished until the last user is dead. (Anonymous)

29. 如今的大部分軟體都非常像埃及金字塔，由成千上萬的石塊一塊一塊構成，沒有結構上的整合，而是由暴力強制和成千上萬的奴隸完成。（Alan Kay）
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves. (Alan Kay)

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