Asks Quote by Bertrand Meyer Download Open image “Ask not first what the system does; ask what it does it to!” — Bertrand Meyer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Asks Doe Firsts Inspirational Programming
It's important to know how to operate within the system you are existing in. — Dasha Zhukova Copy Share Image
You have to respect the system. If you have a problem with the system, change the system. — Jack Kingston Copy Share Image
I'm very inquisitive, and I always have questions and need to touch things to see how it works or why it works. — Trevante Rhodes Copy Share Image
A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind. — Joseph Weizenbaum Copy Share Image
“If you could do this all the time without the system, you wouldn’t need the system.” — Harry Lorayne Copy Share Image
Eiffel borrows quite openly from several earlier programming languages and I am sure that if we had found a good language construct in C… — Bertrand Meyer Copy Share Image
You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time. — Bertrand Meyer Copy Share Image
I think Smalltalk is inappropriate for serious industrial developments. After all, run time is a little late to find out whether you have a… — Bertrand Meyer Copy Share Image
As Mr. Nagle so competently points out, almost no one uses Eiffel; in fact until recently there were only 9 users. But now a… — Bertrand Meyer Copy Share Image
Constants are widely known for the detestable practice of changing their values; we should prepare ourselves against the consequences of such fickleness — Bertrand Meyer Copy Share Image
Correctness is clearly the prime quality. If a system does not do what it is supposed to do, then everything else about it matters… — Bertrand Meyer Copy Share Image
There are only two things wrong with C++: The initial concept and the implementation. — Bertrand Meyer Copy Share Image
Software entities (classes, modules, functions, etc.) should be open for extension, but closed for modification. — Bertrand Meyer Copy Share Image
I have always felt sympathy towards the biologists who accept to debate creationists. Now I also understand them better; one can fight opinions, not… — Bertrand Meyer Copy Share Image
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
I don't wear a watch because I want my arms to weigh the same. So if somebody asks me what time it is, I… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
I am a practicing Catholic, but my lineage is Jewish, so if someone asks me if I'm Jewish, I say yes. — Neve Campbell Copy Share Image
Freedom in every sense but primarily political sense, a rise in repression that stems from a repression of sexuality. It's AIDS, it's herpes, it's… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
Why did Erich von Stronheim leave Germany? Why did Hitchcock leave England? If you were a director you'd like to work in Hollywood too.… — Roman Polanski Copy Share Image
There is nothing more I ask of this life than this moment, exactly so. And suddenly forever seems like too short a time. — Brian Andreas Copy Share Image
Success will come when the societal attitude changes and not a single woman in America asks herself the question 'What did I do?'. — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
The most fundamental question we can ever ask ourselves is whether or not the universe we live in is friendly or hostile. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The rich people are apparently leaving America. They're giving up their citizenship. These great lovers of America who made their money in this country-when… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
There is a way to be a woman, ask for what we deserve and be able to negotiate. — Tracee Ellis Ross Copy Share Image
For someone to ask 'Who did you play for' and to be able to answer a single name 'Liverpool' that would be brilliant...I don't… — Jamie Carragher Copy Share Image
I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
