cat -v harmful stuff

All software sucks

"And folks, let's be honest. Sturgeon was an optimist. Way more than 90% of code is crap." — Al viro

"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." — C.A.R. Hoare, The 1980 ACM Turing Award Lecture

"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code." — Ken Thompson

"..At first I hoped that such a technically unsound project would collapse but I soon realized it was doomed to success. Almost anything in software can be implemented, sold, and even used given enough determination. There is nothing a mere scientist can say that will stand against the flood of a hundred million dollars. But there is one quality that cannot be purchased in this way -and that is reliability. The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich find most hard to pay." — C.A.R. Hoare

"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

Harmful stuff

This is a work in progress, much is missing.

Harmful things that are so superfluous and useless that require no alternative: em Unicode BoM em IDN em Dynamic linking (in Unix systems)