Programming Quotes - Page 32

• It's better to wait for a productive programmer to become available than it is to wait for the first available programmer to become productive.

  Steve McConnell

  Waiting, Firsts, Computer

  Steve McConnell (1997). “Software Project Survival Guide”, p.103, Microsoft Press

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• An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Organization, Able, Treats

  "The C++ Programming Language". Book by Bjarne Stroustrup, October 1985.

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• If you think your management doesn't know what it's doing or that your organisation turns out low-quality software crap that embarrasses you, then leave.

  Edward Yourdon

  Thinking, Quality, Management

  Edward Yourdon (1998). “Rise & Resurrection of the American Programmer”, Yourdon

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• When to use iterative development? You should use iterative development only on projects that you want to succeed.

  Martin Fowler

  Use, Development, Want

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• Correctness is clearly the prime quality. If a system does not do what it is supposed to do, then everything else about it matters little.

  Bertrand Meyer

  Quality, Doe, Littles

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• ... programming requires more concentration than other activities. It's the reason programmers get upset about 'quick interruptions' - such interruptions are tantamount to asking a juggler to keep three balls in the air and hold your groceries at the same time.

  Steve McConnell

  Air, Upset, Three

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• Conceptual integrity is the most important consideration in system design.

  Fred Brooks

  Integrity, Design, Important

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• Experience doesn't necessarily teach anything.

  Gerald Weinberg

  Teach, Software, Software Engineering

  Gerald M. Weinberg (1998). “The Psychology of Computer Programming”, Dorset House

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• Hiring people to write code to sell is not the same as hiring people to design and build durable, usable, dependable software.

  Larry Constantine

  Writing, People, Design

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• Over the last 25 years, the American free enterprise system created the most diverse video programming on earth with the best value for the customer. It is disappointing that the updated report relies on assumptions that are not in line with the reality of the marketplace.

  Kyle E. McSlarrow

  Reality, Years, Lasts

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• People think of security as a noun, something you go buy. In reality, it's an abstract concept like happiness. Openness is unbelievably helpful to security.

  James Gosling

  Reality, Thinking, People

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• With enough eyes, all bugs are shallow.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Eye, Bugs, Enough

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• About 90 percent of the downtime comes from, at most, 10 percent of the defects.

  Barry Boehm

  Downtime, Bugs, Testing

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• Product quality has almost nothing to do with defects or their lack.

  Tom DeMarco

  Quality, Bugs, Testing

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• There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers.

  Steven Levy

  Debugging, Bugs, Computer

  Steven Levy (2010). “Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.332, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• In fast moving markets, adaptation is significantly more important than optimization.

  Larry Constantine

  Moving, Important, Adaptation

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• We met financial expectations for the quarter in a difficult economic environment. We also signed a two-year programming agreement with Home & Garden Television to launch two new cable television series, and launched the Martha Stewart Kids magazine These initiatives provide future revenue and earnings growth for the brand and build long-term value for shareholders.

  Martha Stewart

  Kids, Home, Garden

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• The main activity of programming is not the origination of new independent programs, but in the integration, modification, and explanation of existing ones.

  Terry Winograd

  Independent, Program, Modification

  "Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering". Book by Derek Partridge, "Beyond Programming Languages", 1991.

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• In our society, we move people out of government. It's all operated by machines, meaning – not the people, just the products: the farming, the agriculture, the production – it's all machine-designed and programming. But it does not program or design people. People are free to live whatever lifestyle they want to. If they hurt other people, they're helped – they’re not put in prisons

  Jacque Fresco

  Hurt, Moving, Government

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• All models are wrong; some models are useful.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Learning, Models

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• Ruby on Rails is a breakthrough in lowering the barriers of entry to programming.
  Powerful web applications that formerly might have taken weeks or months
  to develop can be produced in a matter of days.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Powerful, Taken, Might

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• Access to high quality video content -- essentially TV programming -- has never been better than today

  Lloyd Braun

  Quality, Video, Today

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• The displacement of scripted series by reality programming continues to be a severe obstacle to a working actor's ability to earn a living.

  Alan Rosenberg

  Reality, Actors, Obstacles

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• I have a cat, so I know that when she digs her very sharp claws into my chest or stomach it's really a sign of affection, but I don't see any reason for programming languages to show affection with pain.

  Erik Naggum

  Pain, Cat, Affection

  Re: defmacro question (Usenet article), groups.google.com. July 26, 2000.

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• If you don’t take responsibility for programming yourself, then someone else will.

  Paul McKenna

  Responsibility, Taking Responsibility, Ifs

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