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“Raise your quality standards as high as you can live with, avoid wasting your time on routine problems, and always try to work as closely as possible at the boundary of your abilities. Do this, because it is the only way of discovering how that boundary should be moved forward.”
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“It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
“Fisher's Fundamental Theorem states—in terms appropriate to the present context—that the better adapted a system is to a particular environment, the less adaptable it is to new environments.”
― The Psychology of Computer Programming
― The Psychology of Computer Programming
“Testing gathers information about a product; it does not fix things it finds that are wrong.”
― Perfect Software And Other Illusions About Testing
― Perfect Software And Other Illusions About Testing
“If you don't have questions about a product's risks, then there's no reason to test. If you have at least one such question, then ask: Will these tests cost more to execute than their answers will be worth?”
― Perfect Software And Other Illusions About Testing
― Perfect Software And Other Illusions About Testing
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