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• 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…
• 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…
• When someone builds a bridge, he uses engineers who have been certified as knowing what they are doing. Yet when someone builds…
• I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of…
• Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically', they really mean, 'not really'.

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