^^Informatica. Ipse dixit.

 

The day-to-day work of programming consists not of writing new programs, but mostly reading and modifying existing ones.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3882

 

People think computers will keep them from making mistakes.
They’re wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
Adam Osborne

 

'The psychological profiling [of a programmer] is mostly the ability to shift levels of abstraction, from low level to high level. To see something in the small and to see something in the large.' -- Donald Knuth