Quote of the Day
If you enjoy programming, philosophy, math, or any number of geeky topics, you're in the right place. Every day, I'll post a random quote from my extensive collection of Kindle highlights. Quotes do not necessarily reflect my views or opinions. In fact, part of my epistemic process is to consume a wide variety of contradictory material.
09/07/2023
The job of QA is not to find all the bugs; that’s the programmers’ job. The job of QA is to specify the system behavior in terms of tests with sufficient detail that defects are excluded from the final system.
— Robert C. Martin, Clean Craftsmanship
09/06/2023
When agriculture and industry came along people could increasingly rely on the skills of others for survival, and new ‘niches for imbeciles’ were opened up.
— Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens
09/05/2023
If there is no best design solution, then that Extreme Programming simple solution is likely to be as successful as any other…
— Robert L. Glass, Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering
09/04/2023
Restraint is so much easier to practice in the special-purpose design.
— Frederick P. Jr. Brooks, The Design of Design
09/03/2023
Facts don’t cause stress. Drama and stress are caused by stories, and stories are made up.
— Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman, and Kaley Klemp, The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership
1974 post articles, 395 pages.