Grady Booch Quotes

• The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.

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  Simple, Simplicity, Computer

  "Qt for Symbian". Book by Frank H. P. Fitzek et al., 2010.

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• A fool with a tool is still a fool.

  Grady Booch

  Tools, Fool, Testing

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• The task of the software development team is to engineer the illusion of simplicity.

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  Team, Simplicity, Tasks

  Grady Booch, Robert Maksimchuk, Michael Engle, Jim Conallen, Kelli Houston (2007). “Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications”, p.40, Pearson Education

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• The amateur software engineer is always in search of magic.

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  Magic, Software, Engineers

  Grady Booch, Robert Maksimchuk, Michael Engle, Jim Conallen, Kelli Houston (2007). “Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications”, p.339, Pearson Education

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• All of life is iterative. It goes back to the point I made earlier, which is you can't a priori know enough to even ask the right questions.

  Grady Booch

  Life Is, Enough, Made

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• Multiple Inheritance is like a parachute. You don't often need it, but when you do, you really need it.

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  Needs, Inheritance, Multiple

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• In 2031, lawyers will be commonly a part of most development teams.

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  Team, Development, Lawyer

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• Hierarchy is a kind of order of abstractions.

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  Order, Hierarchy, Kind

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• UML is not dessert topping and floor wax.

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  Dessert, Toppings

  Twitter post from Aug 4, 2016

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• C++ also supports the notion of friends: cooperative classes that are permitted to see each other's private parts.

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  Class, Support, Notion

  Grady Booch (1991). “Object Oriented Design: With Applications”, Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Company

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• Ah, but who do you think created the chaos?

  Grady Booch

  Thinking, Chaos

  Grady Booch, Robert Maksimchuk, Michael Engle, Jim Conallen, Kelli Houston (2007). “Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications”, p.31, Pearson Education

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