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.
07/11/2020
…principles for dealing with algorithmic problems are based a lot more directly on 5,000 or10,000 years’ worth of history in mathematics. How we go about programming now, we don’t have anything like that foundation to build on. Which is one of the reasons why so much software is crap: we don’t really know what we’re doing yet.
— Peter Seibel, Coders at Work
07/10/2020
Java programmers tend to use hundreds of lines of code where one would suffice.
— Jonathan E. Steinhart, The Secret Life of Programs
07/09/2020
General meetings generally fall into one of three categories: painful, useless, or soul-crushing.
— Sarah Cooper, 100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings
07/08/2020
There is a whole mathematical method surrounding the management of trivariate estimates. If you are interested, I encourage you to research the program evaluation and review technique (PERT).
— Robert C. Martin, Clean Agile
07/07/2020
Common sense would suggest that the people who estimate software projects ought to be folks who know something abut building software.
— Robert L. Glass, Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering
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