Take the partnership of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr.: a formidable orator refusing to give up his seat on a segregated bus wouldn’t have had the same effect as a modest woman who’d clearly prefer to keep silent but for the
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“If you can visualize a system, you can probably implement it in a computer program.”
― A Philosophy of Software Design
― A Philosophy of Software Design
“Unknown unknowns: The third symptom of complexity is that it is not obvious which pieces of code must be modified to complete a task, or what information a developer must have to carry out the task successfully.”
― A Philosophy of Software Design
― A Philosophy of Software Design
“you can visualize a system, you can probably implement it in a computer program.”
― A Philosophy of Software Design
― A Philosophy of Software Design
“In some organizations, management treats tactical tornadoes as heroes. However, tactical tornadoes leave behind a wake of destruction. They are rarely considered heroes by the engineers who must work with their code in the future.”
― A Philosophy of Software Design
― A Philosophy of Software Design
“If a system has a clean and obvious design, then it will need less documentation. The need for extensive documentation is often a red flag that the design isn’t quite right.”
― A Philosophy of Software Design
― A Philosophy of Software Design
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