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Old 12-11-2005, 08:42 PM   #5 (permalink)
Martian
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Originally Posted by maleficent
7. At some point, we have to count on the intelligence of the user.
This one particularly amuses me. I'm mostly self-taught, but throughout the entire one course I did take on programming, written on the black board in big bold letters was :

THE USER IS AN IDIOT!

It is the mantra of countless programmers, myself included. So when I saw that, I had to laugh.
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