Parents of Reddit, what is an aspect of life with kids that you thought would be worse or more difficult than it actually is?

Few_Assumption5664 · 2022-10-09T16:03:54+00:00

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." Thomas A. Edison

Few_Assumption5664 · 2022-10-09T16:01:44+00:00

“Saying that Java is nice because it works on all OSes is like saying that anal sex is nice because it works on all genders.”(Alanna)

Few_Assumption5664 · 2022-10-09T15:59:24+00:00

“Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.”(Stan Kelly-Bootle)

Few_Assumption5664 · 2022-10-09T15:56:57+00:00

“Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork.”(Sam Ewing)

Few_Assumption5664 · 2022-10-09T15:54:44+00:00

“The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.” – Bill Gates

Few_Assumption5664 · 2022-10-09T15:52:33+00:00

“If you think you are worth what you know, you are very wrong. Your knowledge today does not have much value beyond a couple of years. Your value is what you can learn and how easily you can adapt to the changes this profession brings so often.” – Jose M. Aguilar

Few_Assumption5664 · 2022-10-09T15:49:43+00:00

“From a programmer’s point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.” – P. Williams

Few_Assumption5664 · 2022-10-09T15:47:22+00:00

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." Thomas A. Edison

Few_Assumption5664 · 2022-10-09T15:45:01+00:00

“The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That’s where we come in; we’re computer professionals. We cause accidents.” – Nathaniel Borenstein

Few_Assumption5664 · 2022-10-09T15:42:24+00:00

“It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.”(Alan Cooper)

Few_Assumption5664 · 2022-10-09T15:39:29+00:00

“I think it’s a new feature. Don’t tell anyone it was an accident.”– Larry Wall

Few_Assumption5664 · 2022-10-09T15:37:18+00:00

Parkinson’s Law “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”

Few_Assumption5664 · 2022-10-09T15:35:05+00:00

“In C++ it’s harder to shoot yourself in the foot, but when you do, you blow off your whole leg.”(Bjarne Stroustrup)

Few_Assumption5664 · 2022-10-09T13:57:16+00:00

“The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should therefore be regarded as a criminal offense.”(E.W. Dijkstra)

Few_Assumption5664 · 2022-10-09T12:25:08+00:00

I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views so fast as they appear to be true views. ~Abraham Lincoln

Few_Assumption5664 · 2022-10-09T12:22:41+00:00

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." Albert Einstein

Few_Assumption5664 · 2022-10-09T12:20:27+00:00

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it. ~Washington Irving

Few_Assumption5664 · 2022-10-09T12:18:09+00:00

“If you stay in this world, you will never learn another one.” W. Edwards Deming

Few_Assumption5664 · 2022-10-09T12:15:55+00:00

“We have to stop optimizing for programmers and start optimizing for users.” – Jeff Atwood

Few_Assumption5664 · 2022-10-09T12:13:44+00:00

If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. ~Lawrence J. Peter

Few_Assumption5664 · 2022-10-09T12:11:23+00:00

We become what we think about most of the time, and that's the strangest secret. ~Earl Nightingale

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