Paul Dilascia Quotes

American software developer (1959-2008)

Paul DiLascia (1959 – 3 September 2008) was an American software developer, author, web developer, and editor of the Microsoft Systems Journal column C/C++ Q+A.

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..even MSJ readers will tire of watching Bill Gates adjust his glasses. (1995/10)

...[some code] looks disgusting, but that's life. (1993/6)

The implementation is brainless (various)

Don't do it! (1993/10)

It may seem kludgy, but hey - it works! (1994/3)

So? If you don't like it, write your own [program]. (1995/10)

Pretty simple. Except for one little problem: it doesn't work! (various)

But hey, I only work here. Besides, it works. (1995/6)

To be honest, there's something a little weird about this. (1995/4)

...perhaps this is a "feature", not a bug....

A bug! A bug! Isn’t it just so satisfying to discover bugs in other people’s programs? Especially people from Microsoft. I don’t know why, it’s probably some kind of Freudian code-envy thing.