Infinite Quote by Norman Ralph Augustine Download Open image “Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.” — Norman Ralph Augustine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Infinite Simple Testing
When you have large systems, it becomes almost impossible to make even very simple changes. — James Gosling Copy Share Image
“It’s a simple complex system. That’s the technical name for it. Because it’s simple, it’s prone to cascades, and because it’s complex, you can’t… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable. — Paul Dickson Copy Share Image
What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems... there's no law of physics preventing them. — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible. — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
At the present time there exist problems beyond our ability to solve, not because of theoretical difficulties, but because of insufficient means of mechanical… — Howard Aiken Copy Share Image
If the objective of testing were to prove that a program is free of bugs, then not only would testing be practically impossible, but… — Boris Beizer Copy Share Image
The challenge is about taking things that are infinitely complex and making them simpler and more understandable. — Robert Greenberg Copy Share Image
The general problem with ambitious systems is complexity. [...] it is important to emphasize the value of simplicity and elegance, for complexity has a… — Fernando J. Corbato Copy Share Image
By the time of the United States Tricentennial, there will be more government workers than there are workers. — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
Law Number XXXIX: Never promise to complete any project within six months of the end of the year, in either direction. — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
Law Number XIV: After the year 2015, there will be no airplane crashes. There will be no takeoffs either, because electronics will occupy 100… — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
If the Earth could be made to rotate twice as fast, managers would get twice as much done. If the Earth could be made… — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again. — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The most unsuccessful three years in the education of cost estimators appears to be fifth-grade arithmetic. — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank. — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions. — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
All too many consultants, when asked, 'What is 2 and 2?' respond, 'What do you have in mind?' — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
Law Number XXVIII: It is better to be the reorganizer than the reorganizee. — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
If I have a system it is limited to a recognition of what Kierkegaard called 'the infinite qualitative distinction' between time and eternity — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
A lost love. Deny it who will, ridicule it, treat it as mere imagination and sentiment, the thing is and will be; and women… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
The human body has been designed to resist an infinite number of changes and attacks brought about by its environment. The secret of good… — Harry Johnson Copy Share Image
I've been working with a holistic specialist, trying to bring my body into balance, and part of making that happen is putting my mom's… — Corbin Bernsen Copy Share Image
The infinity of All ever bringing forth anew, and even as infinite space is around us, so is infinite potentiality, capacity, reception, malleability, matter. — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image