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“Here's a quick rule of thumb: Don't annoy science fiction writers. These are people who destroy entire planets before lunch. Think of what they'll do to you.”
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“The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination.”
― The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
― The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
“Study after study shows that the very best designers produce structures that are faster, smaller, simpler, cleaner, and produced with less effort. The differences between the great and the average approach an order of magnitude.”
― The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
― The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
“The general tendency is to over-design the second system, using all the ideas and frills that were cautiously sidetracked on the first one.”
― The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
― The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
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