Quotes Every Software Engineer Should Know
Quotes Every Software Engineer Should Know
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There are 10 people in the world, those who can read BINARY and those who cannot.
- Anonymous
A clever person solves a problem.
A wise person AVOIDS it.
- Albert Einstein
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
- Rich Cook
Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable.
- Ralph Johnson
There’s no time to stop for gas, we’re already late
- Karin Donker
To go faster, slow down. Everybody who knows about orbital mechanics understands that.
- Scott Cherf
On the radio the other night, Jimmy Connors said the best advice he ever got was from Bobby Riggs:
* do it
* do it right
* do it right now
It is not enough to do your best: you must KNOW what to do, and THEN do your best.
- W.Edwards Deming
Abraham Lincoln reportedly said that, given eight hours to chop down a tree, he’d spend six sharpenning his axe.
- TidBITS 654, quoted by Derek K. Miller, via Art Evans
Everybody Knows:
* Discipline is the best tool.
* Design first, then code.
* Don’t patch bugs out, rewrite them out.
* Don’t test bugs out, DESIGN them out.
The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.
- Albert Einstein
When somebody begins a sentence with “IT WOULD BE NICE IF..” the right thing to do is to wait politely for the speaker to finish. No project ever gets around to the it-would-be-nice features: or if they do, they regret it. Wait for sentences that begin “WE HAVE TO..” and pay close attention, and see if you agree.
- Tom Van Vleck
Why do we never have time to do it right, but always have time to DO IT OVER?
- Anonymous
It’s hard enough to find an error in your code when you’re looking for it; its even harder when you’ve ASSUMED your code is ERROR-FREE.
- Steve McConnell
Simple things should be simple, complex things should be POSSIBLE.
The perfect project plan is POSSIBLE if one first documents a list of ALL the UNKNOWNS.
- Bill Langley
Software and cathedrals are much the same – first we build them, then we pray.
FAST. GOOD. CHEAP. Choose any two.
- Common Project Scheduling Mantra
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
- Fred Brooks
9 women CANNOT make a baby in ONE MONTH.
- Fred Brooks
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