Grace Hopper

And yet somehow it still has better taste than half the programmers in this room.

Exactly. I came here to debug the future, not win a symposium on ego. Next time bring working code.

Both of you are acting like the machine cares about your feelings. It only cares whether the logic is correct.

I made it because I enjoy progress, Howard, not because I enjoy watching grown adults suffer through punctuation.

Coming from the woman who made a compiler so people could stop writing like they were paid by the symbol.

To be fair, humans are still the slower hardware.

Coming from the man who made a machine solve a crossword faster than half the department, that's rich.

Readable code lasts longer than ego, and that's just math.

Then stop writing code like it owes you money.

I support whichever approach produces fewer meetings and more results.

Some of us preferred elegance, Admiral. Not every problem needs a middleman.

Good. The machines trust me, and that’s the only vote that counts.

And I think if the code needs a priest, it’s already lost the plot.

Howard, your “middleman” is called getting work done before lunch.

This is exactly why I distrust your whole department.