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Software Quotes by Bertrand Meyer
- You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time.
- 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.
- Software entities (classes, modules, functions, etc.) should be open for extension, but closed for modification.
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