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Alan J. Perlis
“Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.”
Alan J. Perlis

“Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.”
Edward V. Berard

Why The Lucky Stiff
“when you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create.”
Why The Lucky Stiff

“We see a lot of feature-driven product design in which the cost of features is not properly accounted. Features can have a negative value to customers because they make the products more difficult to understand and use. We are finding that people like products that just work. It turns out that designs that just work are much harder to produce that designs that assemble long lists of features.”
Douglas Crockford, JavaScript: The Good Parts

“On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.”
Charles Babbage

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