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  • When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.

    "The Universal Book of Mathematics". Book by David Darling, p. 34, November 8, 2004.
  • The Internet is a powerful example of free speech and the free market in action; it is curious that the Net has alarmed the lawmakers of a nation founded on those principles.

  • Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming.

    Roots   Evil   Simplicity  
  • The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich may find hard to pay.

    "The Emperor's Old Clothes". Tony Hoare's lecture at the 1980 ACM Turing Award in Nashville, Tennessee; "Communications of the ACM", Volume 24, Issue 2, dl.acm.org. February 1981.
  • Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.

  • If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls Royce would today cost $100 and get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside.

    "Noted from the field". "InfoWorld Magazine", Volume 11, Number 10, March 6, 1989.
  • Find the simplest model that is not a lie is the key to better software design.

    Lying   Keys   Design  
  • Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge

    Winston Churchill (2005). “The World Crisis, 1911-1918”, p.623, Simon and Schuster
  • There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.

    Writing   Errors   Two  
    "Epigrams on Programming". ACM "SIGPLAN" Notices 17 (9), (pp. 7-13), September 1982.
  • Luck is the residue of design.

    Life   Witty   War  
  • Microsoft unleashed something called Bob, a program that's supposed to make Windows easier to use. Until a Bob helper is born, you can look forward to reading - I swear this is true - Microsoft Bob for Dummies.

    Reading   Design   Looks  
    "Computers & Technology" by Joshua Quittner, www.sfgate.com. June 11, 1995.
  • Good work is always done in defiance of management.

  • To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that.

    Design   Nails   Looks  
  • The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.

  • It's hard to read through a book on the principles of magic without glancing at the cover periodically to make sure it isn't a book on software design.

  • The designer of a new kind of system must participate fully in the implementation.

    Design   Kind   Software  
  • Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.

    Simple   Hands   People  
    "Unleash the Billionaire Within: Learn the Mastermind Principles for Acquiring Wealth Beyond Imagination". Book by Esmonde Holowaty, p. 298, 2011.
  • The tragedy of our time is that we've got it backwards, we've learned to love techniques and use people.

    People   Design   Tragedy  
  • If you want a language that tries to lock up all the sharp objects and fire-making implements, use Pascal or Ada: the Nerf languages, harmless fun for children of all ages, and they won't mar the furniture.

    Children   Fun   Fire  
  • I have found that meditation has helped me with my academic career and has given me insights into musical composition and software design.

  • Inspiration comes from the act of writing.

    "I find inspiration through writing". www.swissinfo.ch. July 6, 2008.
  • We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error, undetected, will flourish and subvert.

    Wise   Believe   Men  
    "Encouragement of Science". J. Robert Oppenheimer's address at Science Talent Institute (March 6, 1950), as quoted in "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists", Volume 7, No. 1 (pp. 6-8), January 1951.
  • If you like your remote messaging fat, dumb, and interoperable, you could also look into the SOAP libraries distributed with Ruby.

    Design   Dumb   Library  
  • Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty-a beauty cold and austere ... yet sublimely pure and capable of stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.

    Art   Math   Perfection  
    "The Study of Mathematics" (1902)
  • There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.

    Witty   Humorous   Simple  
    "The Emperor's Old Clothes". Communications of the ACM 24 (2), (pp. 75-83), February 1981.
  • Learning research tells us that the time lag from experiment to feedback is critical.

    Design   Research   Lag  
  • If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.

    Design   Want   Helpful  
  • Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

    "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" by Gerald Jay Sussman and Hal Abelson, (Preface to the first edition), 1979.
  • Java development without a little heresy would be a dull place, and a dangerous one.

    Bruce Tate, Justin Gehtland (2004). “Better, Faster, Lighter Java”, p.31, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
  • Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.

    Brian W. Kernighan (1981). “Software Tools in Pascal”, Addison-Wesley Professional
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