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- As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
- Find the simplest model that is not a lie is the key to better software design.
- 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…
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- Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases. — Norman Ralph Augustine
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- It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has… — Alan Cooper
- The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich may find hard… — Tony Hoare