Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site utrc-2at.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!mnetor!yetti!utrc-2at!davidh From: davidh@utrc-2at.UUCP (David M Haynes) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: Thought for the day Message-ID: <170@utrc-2at.UUCP> Date: Sat, 7-Dec-85 13:37:20 EST Article-I.D.: utrc-2at.170 Posted: Sat Dec 7 13:37:20 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 7-Dec-85 18:18:31 EST References: <104100037@uiucuxc> <1424@wanginst.UUCP> Reply-To: davidh@.UUCP (David M Haynes) Distribution: na Organization: Ultrasecure Tempest Research Corp., Toronto, Ont. CAN. Lines: 15 Summary: >>Connie Falk writes: >>If builders built buildings the way programmers write programs, then the first >>woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. >> (freely stolen from somewhere- don't know the source) >> >Mark Ellison writes: >"Most civil engineers never build a bridge that collapses." > (C.A.R. Hoare) The one I always like is one I heard from David Brown at U of Waterloo. (where he got it I don't know.) "Writing software is like building a bridge from one side only." David Haynes (-david-)