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programming quotes #2
- Testing by itself does not improve software quality. Test results are an indicator of quality, but in and of themselves, they don’t improve it. Trying to improve software quality by increasing the amount of testing is like trying to lose weight by weighing yourself more often. What you eat before you step onto the scale determines how much you will weigh, and the software development techniques you use determine how many errors testing will find. If you want to lose weight, don’t buy a new scale; change your diet. If you want to improve your software, don’t test more; develop better. –Steve McConnell Code Complete
- Once a new technology starts rolling, if you’re not part of the steamroller, you’re part of the road. — Stewart Brand
- The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. — Flannery O’Connor
- Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do. — Donald Knuth
- Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. — Donald Knuth