“It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.”
“In fact, this book might have been about Bill Campbell, college football legend, rather than Bill Campbell, Silicon Valley legend. And to learn more about him you might be doing a Yahoo or Bing search!)”
― Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell
― Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell
“the disaster is due to termites, not tornadoes; and the schedule has slipped imperceptibly but inexorably.”
― The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
― The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
“It is no longer sufficient that every programmer does what is right in their own eyes. Some disciplines, standards, and ethics will come. The decision before us today is whether we programmers will define them for ourselves or have them forced upon us by those who don’t know us.”
― Clean Craftsmanship: Disciplines, Standards, and Ethics
― Clean Craftsmanship: Disciplines, Standards, and Ethics
“Buy versus build. The most radical possible solution for constructing software is not to construct it at all.”
― The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
― The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
“Disaster often comes in the long run from suboptimal decisions in the short run”
― Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design
― Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design
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