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We have come through a strange cycle in programming, starting with the creation of programming itself as a human activity. Executives with the tiniest smattering of knowledge assume that anyone can write a program, and only now are programmers beginning to win their battle for recognition as true professionals. Not just anyone, with any background, or any training, can do a fine job of programming. Programmers know this, but then why is it that they think that anyone picked off the street can do documentation? One has only to spend an hour looking at papers written by graduate students to realize the extent to which the ability to communicate is not universally held. And so, when we speak about computer program documentation, we are not speaking about the psychology of computer programming at all except insofar as programmers have the illusion that anyone can do a good job of documentation, provided he is not smart enough to be a programmer., Gerald Weinberg, The Psychology of Computer Programming,Vanity makes us do more things against inclination than reason., Francois De La Rochefoucauld, French author moralist (1613 1680)
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him., Louis L. Mann,
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All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called Facts. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain., Thomas Hobbes, English political philosopher (1588 1679)
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another., Helen Keller, US blind deaf educator (1880 1968)
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them., Isaac Asimov, US science fiction novelist scholar (1920 1992)