We know about as much about software quality problems as they knew about the Black Plague in the 1600s. We've seen the victims' agonies and helped burn the corpses. We don't know what causes it; we don't really know if there is only one disease. We just suffer -- and keep pouring our sewage into our water supply.
-- Tom Van Vleck
-- Tom Van Vleck
Related:
- Much of the excitement we get out of our work
is that we don't really know what we are doing.
-- E. Dijkstra... - Do we know much about women? Do we? We don't. We know when they're happy,
we know when they're crying, we know when they're pissed off.
We just don't know what order those are gonna come at us. -- Evan Davi... - We are always acting on what has just finished happening.
It happened at least one-thirtieth of a second ago.... - We don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
- Cats KNOW how we feel - they just don't CARE about it!
- It is strange that we know so little about the properties
of numbers.
They are our handiwork, yet they baffle us; we can fathom only a few of their intricacies.... - We make most of our mistakes when we are optimistic. -- Don Herold
- Ned: OK, folks, look: I called the police captain in Shelbyville.
He says he hasn't seen our kids, but if they show up in the morgue, he'll fax us.... - We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
