Brute force Quote by Steve McConnell Download Open image “A brute force solution that works is better than an elegant solution that doesn't work.” — Steve McConnell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Brute force Brutes Design Elegant Elegant solutions Force Problem solving Programming Software engineering Solutions
For every problem, there exists a simple and elegant solution which is absolutely wrong. — Ellet J. Waggoner Copy Share Image
Doing the simple thing first doesn't mean your solution will work forever. — Mike Krieger Copy Share Image
The trick is to fix the problem you have, rather than the problem you want. — Bram Cohen Copy Share Image
... programming requires more concentration than other activities. It's the reason programmers get upset about 'quick interruptions' - such interruptions are tantamount to asking… — Steve McConnell Copy Share Image
The job of the average manager requires a shift in focus every few minutes. The job of the average software developer requires that the… — Steve McConnell Copy Share Image
“usually more time is spent in making good-looking presentation slides than in improving the quality of the software.” — Steve McConnell Copy Share Image
It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; it's even harder when you've assumed your code is… — Steve McConnell Copy Share Image
“the error rate in manual testing is comparable to the bug rate in the code being tested.” — Steve McConnell Copy Share Image
“[...] you shouldn't be uneasy about any parts of the architecture. It shouldn't contain anything just to please the boss. It shouldn't contain anything… — Steve McConnell Copy Share Image
It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it. — Steve McConnell Copy Share Image
“Programmers working with high-level languages achieve better productivity and quality than those working with lower-level languages. Languages such as C++, Java, Smalltalk, and Visual… — Steve McConnell Copy Share Image
The trouble with quick and dirty is that dirty remains long after quick has been forgotten. — Steve McConnell Copy Share Image
War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
What took me decades to learn, these kids can get on the Internet...What I learned by brute force, dealing out hands, they learn on… — Doyle Brunson Copy Share Image
In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The civil magistrate cannot function without some ethical guidance, without some standard of good and evil. If that standard is not to be the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force--nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Extended families have never been the norm in America; the highest figure for extended-family households ever recorded in Americanhistory is 20 percent. Contrary to… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
I saw that the kingdom must be interior before it can be exterior, that it is a kingdom of ideas, and not one of… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
THE ART OF PEACE does not rely on weapons or brute force to succeed; instead, we put ourselves in tune with the universe, maintain… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
Do not be proud just because you have brute force, because an animal has brute force too! Either you be proud with your intellect… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
They opposed brute force to reason and philosophy, and battalions of foreign mercenaries to ideas. As if ideas were to be impaled on bayonets! — Rafael Sabatini Copy Share Image
“Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.” — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image