David Parnas Quotes
- Copy and paste is a design error.
- As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
- One bad programmer can easily create two new jobs a year.
- Many spend their time berating practitioners for not applying their method. We all need to disseminate our ideas, but most of our time should be…
- Find the simplest model that is not a lie is the key to better software design.
- There are no standards for computer programmers and no group to certify them.
- My judgment is that research in 'Star Wars' is going to fail, and I believe this so strongly that I'm willing to stake my professional…
- When someone builds a bridge, he uses engineers who have been certified as knowing what they are doing. Yet when someone builds you a software…
- I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of people are interested…
- Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically', they really mean, 'not really'.