Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because
God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software
engineer.
-- Fred Brooks, Jr.
God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software
engineer.
-- Fred Brooks, Jr.
Related:
- Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature,
because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such... - Digital computers are themselves more complex than most things people build:
They have very large numbers of states. This makes... - To a Europe exhausted by nearly two centuries of religious wars,
[Isaac] Newton's works were first and foremost a message... - Software entities are more complex for their size than perhaps any
other human construct because no two parts are alike.
If they are, we make the two similar parts into a subroutine... - In the pitiful, multipage, connection-boxed form to which the flowchart has
today been elaborated,
it has proved to be useless as a design tool -- programmers... - The complexity of software is an essential property,
not an accidental one. Hence, descriptions of a software... - More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all
other causes combined.
Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., "The Mythical Man... - Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that
God is a cruel and capricious tyrant.
Edward Gibbon (1734... - Conceptual integrity in turn dictates that the design must proceed from one
mind,
or from a very small number of agreeing resonant minds...
From the same category:
- It is because of your disillusionments that you fly.
Here then is the dragonfly with its four wings, full... - Beware of self-styled experts: an ex is a has-been,
and a spurt is a drip under pressure... - Whoever tells a lie cannot be pure in heart -- and only the
pure in heart can make a good soup.
Ludwig Van... - Tuck under thumb and hold
firmly... - What are you doing over there?
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