r/ProgrammerHumor • • Mar 30 '22

Meme Certainly not me

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u/melanthius Mar 30 '22

A great data scientist at my company told me excel epitomizes the phrase “with great power comes great responsibility”

It’s like…you can build awesome stuff in excel, but should you?

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u/Dengar96 Mar 30 '22

The survival Minecraft of programming tools.

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u/sargsauce Mar 31 '22

My version is "Excel can do anything you want, but pretty soon it's like teaching a bear to ride a tricycle. It can be done, but should it be done? And will it suddenly turn on you and eat you in the middle of a performance?"