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“testing is an idea generation activity, rather than a plan implementation activity.”
― Bret Pettichord, Lessons Learned in Software Testing: A Context-Driven Approach

“Макар че Пулхелия Александровна беше вече четирдесет и три годишна, лицето й все още пазеше следите от предишната й красота и при това тя изглеждаше доста по-млада от годините си, което се случва почти винаги с жени, запазили яснотата на духа, свежестта на впечатленията и честния, чист пламък на сърцето до старини. Ще кажем в скоби, да се запази всичко това, е единственото средство да не загубиш красотата си дори на старини”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“If you cannot think of three ways of abusing a tool, you do not understand how to use it. Faithful”
― Gerald M. Weinberg, An Introduction to General Systems Thinking

“Parrot like an African Grey. Your job, when sitting the
exam, is not to display learning, your job is to regurgitate
whatever you were told or read in the syllabus. Regardless
of what you think about what you were told, your job is to
repeat it back.The “Dear Evil Tester” Letters
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For multiple choice: don’t think “what is the right answer?”,
instead think “what do they think is the right answer?”

Evil Tester answering "Do you have any tips on taking the {insert
nominated certification board name here}
certification exam?”
― Alan Richardson

“that material presents ‘testing’
as: “start spending 100% of my time on the project, formally
writing a test strategy, approach, and plan, and writing
test cases and scripts which are cross referenced to the
requirements, even though the requirements are changing
and therefore much of the ‘testing’ would lead to waste and
rework”
― Alan Richardson, Dear Evil Tester

“many teams that say they have an estimation problem actually have a negotiation problem. A manager asks for an estimate. The team says, “That will take four days.” The manager makes a counteroffer, “Can you make it two?” This is no longer a discussion about estimates. It’s a negotiation.”
― Elisabeth Hendrickson, Explore It!: Reduce Risk and Increase Confidence with Exploratory Testing

“we can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

“The technical definition of heuristic is a simple procedure that helps find adequate, though often imperfect, answers to difficult questions. The”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

“The first lesson is that errors of prediction are inevitable because the world is unpredictable. The second is that high subjective confidence is not to be trusted as an indicator of accuracy (low confidence could be more informative).”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

“But we should not expect performance in officer training and in combat to be predictable from behavior on an obstacle field—behavior both on the test and in the real world is determined by many factors that are specific to the particular situation. Remove”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

“And it implies that if we respect truth, we must search for it by persistently searching for our errors: by indefatigable rational criticism, and self-criticism.”
― Karl R. Popper, Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge

“We show that the boundary between humans and machines is permeable at least insofar as humans often find reason for acting in machinelike fashion. We explore the possibility of shifts in the position of the boundary between humans and machines: If humans changed the ways they acted, they could make the very boundary between themselves and machines disappear.”
― Harry M. Collins, The Shape of Actions: What Humans and Machines Can Do

“To make sense of what people do, one must share their society or form of life. Therefore machines ought to be the strangest of strangers.”
― Harry M. Collins, The Shape of Actions: What Humans and Machines Can Do

“The crises we face are systemic in nature. To overcome those crises we need to understand how systems work. To arrive at such an understanding we need to think systemically.”
― Ludwig Von Bertalanffy, General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications

“There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.” —Alan J. Perlis”
― James A. Whittaker, Exploratory Software Testing: Tips, Tricks, Tours, and Techniques to Guide Test Design