With enough eyes, all
With enough eyes, all bugs are shallow. Eric S. Raymond
Software Engineering
To make an embarrassing
To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That’s what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games. Nothing like saving the world. Elon Musk
Software engineering is not
Software engineering is not about right and wrong but only better and worse Ellen Ullman
If you think your
If you think your management doesn’t know what it’s doing or that your organisation turns out low-quality software crap that embarrasses you, then leave. Edward Yourdon
The required techniques of
The required techniques of effective reasoning are pretty formal, but as long as programming is done by people that don’t master them, the software crisis will remain with us and will be considered an incurable disease. And you know what incurable diseases do: they invite the quacks and charlatans in, who in this case take … Read more
… what society overwhelmingly
… what society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil. Of course, the snake oil has the most impressive names — otherwise you would be selling nothing — like “Structured Analysis and Design”, “Software Engineering”, “Maturity Models”, “Management Information Systems”, “Integrated Project Support Environments” “Object Orientation” and “Business Process Re-engineering”. Edsger Dijkstra
The question of whether
The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim. Edsger Dijkstra
Program testing can be
Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence! Edsger Dijkstra
Computer science is no
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. Edsger Dijkstra
If debugging is the
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. Edsger Dijkstra