Category: Now They Have Two Problems


Some people, when faced with a problem, think, “I know, I’ll use binary.” Now they have 10 problems.

- Ned Batchelder @nedbat

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use versioning.” Now they have 2.1.0 problems.

- Jason Coyle @JaesCoyle

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use multithreading”. Nothhw tpe yawrve o oblems.

- Erik Osheim @d6

Some programmers, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use floating point arithmetic.” Now they have 1.999999999997 problems.

- Tom Scott @tomscott

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems.

- Jamie Zawinski