"Weinberg's Second Law: If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization."
— Programming

January 1, 1970

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Previously attributed to Dennis Hall at the Lawrence Berkeley Labs, in Clifford Stoll's "The Cuckoo's Egg" (1989), p. 89. "If people built houses the way we write programs, the first woodpecker would wipe out civilization."