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People don& #39;t know what they want until you show it to them.
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Steve Jobs (Business Week, 1997)
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Steve Jobs (Business Week, 1997)
It always takes longer than you estimated, even if you take into account Hofstadter& #39;s Law.
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Hofstadter& #39;s Law
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Hofstadter& #39;s Law
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A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history ā with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
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Mitch Ratcliffe
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Mitch Ratcliffe
It& #39;s hard to read through a book on the principles of magic without
glancing at the cover periodically to make sure it isn& #39;t a book on
software design.
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Bruce Tognazzini
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glancing at the cover periodically to make sure it isn& #39;t a book on
software design.
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Bruce Tognazzini
https://www.asktog.com/papers/magic.html">https://www.asktog.com/papers/ma...
Nothing is ever delivered on time or within budget.
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Cheops& #39; Law
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Cheops& #39; Law
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The only intuitive interface is the nipple.
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Jay Vollmer
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Jay Vollmer
Every program has at least two purposes: one for which it was written and another for which it wasn& #39;t.
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Alan Perlis
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Alan Perlis
The Internet is not something you just dump something on. It& #39;s not a big truck. It& #39;s a series of tubes.
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Sen. Ted Stevens (R - Alaska) (June 28, 2006)
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Sen. Ted Stevens (R - Alaska) (June 28, 2006)
Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited.
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Tom Gilb
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Tom Gilb
No software can be better organized than the team that creates it.
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corollary to Conway& #39;s Law
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corollary to Conway& #39;s Law
The programmer, like the poet, works with pure thought-stuff. He
builds his castles in the air, from air.
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Fred Brooks
builds his castles in the air, from air.
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Fred Brooks
If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside.
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Robert Cringely
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Robert Cringely
A basic principle of data processing teaches the futility of trying to maintain independent files in synchronism.
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Fred Brooks
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Fred Brooks
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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Alan Perlis
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Alan Perlis
Don& #39;t worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
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Alan Kay
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Alan Kay
The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the
world& #39;s richest source of rewarding challenges.
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Edsger Dijkstra
world& #39;s richest source of rewarding challenges.
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Edsger Dijkstra
The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.
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Cargill& #39;s Law
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Cargill& #39;s Law
A program is never less than 90% complete, and never more than 95% complete.
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Terry Baker
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Terry Baker
Once you open a can of worms, the only way to recan them is to use a larger can.
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Zymurgy& #39;s Law
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Zymurgy& #39;s Law
Make it possible for programmers to write programs in English and you will find that programmers cannot write in English.
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Troutman& #39;s Law
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Troutman& #39;s Law
God does not play dice with the universe. The same cannot be said for programmers.
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