“In software, we rarely have meaningful requirements. Even if we do, the only measure of success that matters is whether our solution solves the customer’s shifting idea of what their problem is.”
– Jeff Atwood
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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.”
– Dave Parnas
“In a room full of top software designers, if two agree on the same thing, that’s a majority.”
– Bill Curtis
“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.”
– C.A.R. Hoare
“Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.”
– Alan Kay
One Furious Llama 