“Good testing involves balancing the need to mitigate risk against the risk of trying to gather too much information.” — Gerald M. Weinberg Copy Share Image
“Much of the ability to help other people arises from personal power, but it would be naive to assert that nothing else is required.… — Gerald M. Weinberg Copy Share Image
“What you don't know may not hurt you, but what you don't remember always does.” — Gerald M. Weinberg Copy Share Image
“If you are a leader, the people are your work. There is no other work worth doing.* One” — Gerald M. Weinberg Copy Share Image
“Separation of function is not to be despised, but neither should it be exalted. Separation is not an unbreakable law, but a convenience for… — Gerald M. Weinberg Copy Share Image
“Often when managers say, "Testing takes too long," what they should be saying is, "Fixing the bugs in the product takes too long"—a different… — Gerald M. Weinberg Copy Share Image
“Although technology often leads science in discovery, the philosophy of technology is usually drawn from the scientific philosophy of its time. In our time,… — Gerald M. Weinberg Copy Share Image
“Why is it that we reward programmers who work all night to remove the errors they put into their programs, or managers who make… — Gerald M. Weinberg Copy Share Image
“Or, suppose you want to motivate your managers to ship products on time, so you conspicuously promote each manager whose product goes out the… — Gerald M. Weinberg Copy Share Image
“If you don't have questions about a product's risks, then there's no reason to test. If you have at least one such question, then… — Gerald M. Weinberg Copy Share Image
“Within IBM at that time, growing a beard without getting fired was an indisputable mark of technical genius. In” — Gerald M. Weinberg Copy Share Image
“There's never an easy answer to the question "Should we do more testing?" because information can guide risk reduction, but doesn't necessarily do so.” — Gerald M. Weinberg Copy Share Image
“Testing may convincingly demonstrate the presence of bugs, but can never demonstrate their absence."- Edsger W. Dijkstra, Computing Pioneer (1930–2002), "Programming as a discipline… — Gerald M. Weinberg Copy Share Image
