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Agile Manifesto Signatories

Manifesto for Agile Software Development

“We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value:
* Individuals and interactions over processes and tools.
* Working software over comprehensive documentation.
* Customer collaboration over contract negotiation.
* Responding to change over following a plan.
That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.”
  • Source: Kent Beck; James Grenning; Robert C. Martin; Mike Beedle; Jim Highsmith; Steve Mellor; Arie van Bennekum; Andrew Hunt; Ken Schwaber; Alistair Cockburn; Ron Jeffries; Jeff Sutherland; Ward Cunningham; Jon Kern; Dave Thomas; Martin Fowler; Brian Marick (2001). 'Manifesto for Agile Software Development'. Agile Alliance. https://agilemanifesto.org/ Retrieved 14 June 2010.
    • © 2001, the above authors. This declaration may be freely copied in any form, but only in its entirety through this notice.
Keywords: Manifesto_quotes Agile_quotes Software_quotes Development_quotes Uncover_quotes Better_quotes Do_quotes Help_quotes Work_quotes Value_quotes Individual_quotes Interaction_quotes Process_quotes Tool_quotes Comprehensive_quotes Documentation_quotes Customer_quotes Collaboration_quotes Contract_quotes Negotiate_quotes Respond_quotes Change_quotes Follow_quotes Plan_quotes

Isaac_Asimov

Comets

“How bright and beautiful a comet is as it flies past our planet — provided it does fly past it.”
  • Source: Isaac Asimov, chapter epigraph in Isaac Asimov’s Book of Science and Nature Quotations, edited by Isaac Asimov and Jason A. Shulman, published in 1988 by Weidenfeld and Nicolson, New York. Chapter 13, page 47. ISBN 1-555-84111-2.
Keywords: Comet_quotes Bright_quotes Beautiful_quotes Fly_quotes Planet_quotes Do_quotes Safe_quotes Risk_quotes Danger_quotes

Harve_Bennett

Needs of the One

(Spock) “Why would you do this?”
(Kirk)  “Because the needs of the one outweigh the needs of the many.”
  • Source: From the movie “Star Trek III: The Search for Spock” released 1984. Screenplay written by Harve Bennett. Directed by Leonard Nimoy. Produced by Harve Bennett. Production Company: Paramount Pictures. The character Spock played by actor Leonard Nimoy. The character Captain Kirk played by William Shatner.
Keywords: Do_quotes Need_quotes Many_quotes Outweigh_quotes Few_quotes One_quotes

Bible_Verses

Tower Of Babel (Genesis 11:4-6)

(4) “And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.”
(5) “And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.”
(6) “And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.”
Keywords: Lord_quotes Build_quotes City_quotes Tower_quotes Top_quotes Reach_quotes Heaven_quotes Make_quotes Name_quotes Pride_quotes Hubris_quotes Scatter_quotes Face_quotes Whole_quotes Earth_quotes Children_quotes Men_quotes People_quotes One_quotes Unity_quotes Cooperation_quotes Language_quotes Do_quotes Nothing_quotes Restraint_quotes Imagination_quotes Babel_quotes

House On Sand (Matthew 7:24-27)

(24) “Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:”
(25) “And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.”
(26) “And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:”
(27) “And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.'
Keywords: Hear_quotes Saying_quotes Do_quotes Like_quotes Wise_quotes Build_quotes Rock_quotes Rain_quotes Flood_quotes Wind_quotes Beat_quotes House_quotes Fall_quotes Stable_quotes Sturdy_quotes Fool_quotes Man_quotes Sand_quotes Great_quotes

Arthur_Bloch

Murphy's Law Corollary 6

“Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first.”
  • Source: Attributed to Edward A Murphy, reported in the book “Murphy's Law and Other Reasons Why Things Go Wrong” written by Arthur Bloch, first edition published in 1977 by Price/Stern/Sloan, Los Angeles, California. ISBN-10: 0843104287. ISBN-13: 978-0843104288. Chapter Murphology, page 11.
Keywords: Whenever_quotes Set_quotes Out_quotes Do_quotes Something_quotes Must_quotes Be_quotes Done_quotes First_quotes Law_quotes Murphy(topic)_quotes

Iles's Law

“There is always an easier way to do it. When looking directly at the easier way, especially for long periods, you will not see it.”
  • Source: Attributed to Iles, reported in the book “Murphy's Law and Other Reasons Why Things Go Wrong” written by Arthur Bloch, first edition published in 1977 by Price/Stern/Sloan, Los Angeles, California. ISBN-10: 0843104287. ISBN-13: 978-0843104288. Chapter Murphology, page 13.
  • Notes: Who Iles was has not been reliably identified.
Keywords: Always_quotes Easier_quotes Way_quotes Do_quotes Look_quotes Long_quotes Period_quotes See_quotes Law_quotes Iles(topic)_quotes Murphy(topic)_quotes

Finagle's Fourth Law

“Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it only makes it worse.”
  • Source: Attributed to a fictional character named Finagle, reported in the book "Murphy's Law and Other Reasons Why Things Go Wrong" written by Arthur Bloch, first edition published in 1977 by Price/Stern/Sloan, Los Angeles, California. ISBN-10: 0843104287. ISBN-13: 978-0843104288. Chapter Murphology, page 15.
Keywords: Murphy(topic)_quotes Law_quotes Job_quotes Foul_quotes Anything_quotes Do_quotes Improve_quotes Make_quotes Worse_quotes

Robert_N_Britcher

Did Not Know

“What I didn't know then was that I didn't know what I was doing.”
  • Source: Britcher, Robert N. (1999). The Limits of Software: People, Projects, and Perspectives. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley. ISBN 0-201-43323-0. Page 59.
Keywords: Ignorance_quotes Knowledge_quotes Do_quotes

Warren_Buffett

Money Versus Business

“So as a practical matter we need management with the businesses that we buy and three times out of four thereabouts the manager is the owner and is receiving tens of millions maybe hundreds of millions of dollars so they don't have to work and we have to decide in that time when we meet them whether they love the business or love money... I'm not making a moral judgment about whether it's better to love the business or love money but it's very important for me to know which which of the two is the primary motivator with them... so all all we have to do is avoid anything that on our part that diminishes that love of the business or makes other conditions so intolerable that they overcome that love of the business. We have a number of people working for us that have no financial need to work at all and they probably outwork 95 percent or more of the people in the world and they do it because they just they love smacking the ball.”
Keywords: Practical_quotes Matter_quotes Management_quotes Business_quotes Owner_quotes Receive_quotes Money_quotes Work_quotes Decide_quotes Love_quotes Morality_quotes Judgment_quotes Knowledge_quotes Diminish_quotes Motivator_quotes Primary_quotes Avoid_quotes Condition_quotes Intolerable_quotes Overcome_quotes People_quotes Financial_quotes Need_quotes Outwork_quotes Do_quotes Smack_quotes Ball_quotes

Francis_Chisholm

Chisholm's 3rd Law of Human Interaction

“Chisholm's 3rd Law of Human Interaction. Purposes, as understood by the purposer, will be judged otherwise by others.
Corollary 1: If you explain so clearly that nobody can misunderstand, somebody will.
Corollary 2: If you do something which you are sure will meet with everybody’s approval, somebody won’t like it.
Corollary 3: Procedures devised to implement the purpose won’t quite work.
Corollary 4: No matter how long or how many times you explain, no one is listening.”
  • Source: From the essay “The Chisholm Effect” by Francis P. Chisholm, included in the anthology “A Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown: Essays for a Scientific Age” edited by Robert A. Baker, published by Prentice Hall in 1982. ISBN: 0138526087, ISBN: 978-0138526085.
Keywords: Law_quotes Chisholm(topic)_quotes Human_quotes Interaction_quotes Purpose_quotes Understood_quotes Judge_quotes Explain_quotes Clear_quotes Nobody_quotes Misunderstand_quotes Do_quotes Meet_quotes Everybody_quotes Approve_quotes Somebody_quotes Like_quotes Procedure_quotes Devise_quotes Implement_quotes Work_quotes Matter_quotes Long_quotes Time_quotes Listen_quotes

W_Edwards_Deming

Handicapped by the System

"The supposition is prevalent the world over that there would be no problems in production or service if only our production workers would do their jobs in the way that they were taught. Pleasant dreams. The workers are handicapped by the system, and the system belongs to the management."
  • Source: W. Edwards Deming (1982) Out Of The Crisis. The MIT Press. (2e ed. 1986) p. 134.
Keywords: Suppose_quotes Prevalence_quotes World_quotes Problem_quotes Production_quotes Service_quotes Worker_quotes Do_quotes Job_quotes Way_quotes Teaching_quotes Dreaming_quotes Handicap_quotes System_quotes Belong_quotes Management_quotes

Peter_Drucker

Ordering Others About

“It does not follow from the separation of planning and doing in the analysis of work that the planner and the doer should be two different people. It does not follow that the industrial world should be divided into two classes of people: a few who decide what is to be done, design the job, set the pace, rhythm and motions, and order others about; and the many who do what and as they are told.”
  • Source: Peter Drucker, “The Practice of Management” New York,: Harper, 1st ed. 1954 ; Routledge, 2012, p. 284.
Keywords: Follow_quotes Separation_quotes Plan_quotes Do_quotes Analysis_quotes Work_quotes Differences_quotes Human_quotes People_quotes Industry_quotes World_quotes Divide_quotes Class_quotes Few_quotes Decision_quotes Design_quotes Set_quotes Pace_quotes Rhythm_quotes Motion_quotes Order_quotes Told_quotes

What a Manager Does

“A manager sets objectives - A manager organizes - A manager motivates and communicates - A manager, by establishing yardsticks, measures - A manager develops people.”
  • Source: Peter Drucker, “The Practice of Management” New York,: Harper, 1st ed. 1954 ; Routledge, 2012, p. 344.
Keywords: Do_quotes Manager_quotes Set_quotes Organization_quotes Motivation_quotes Communication_quotes Establish_quotes Yardstick_quotes Measurement_quotes Development_quotes People_quotes

Implementing and Doing

“The moment people talk of 'implementing' instead of 'doing,' and of 'finalizing' instead of 'finishing,' the organization is already running a fever."”
  • Source: Peter F. Drucker, “Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World”, New York: Harper & Row, 1959. p. 94.
Keywords: Moment_quotes People_quotes Talking_quotes Implementation_quotes Do_quotes Final_quotes Finishing_quotes Organization_quotes Run_quotes Fever_quotes

A Better Tool

“A tool is not necessarily better because it is bigger. A tool is best if it does the job required with a minimum of effort, with a minimum of complexity, and with a minimum of power.”
  • Source: Peter F. Drucker, “Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices”, New York: Harper & Row, 1973. p. 224.
Keywords: Tool_quotes Necessary_quotes Better_quotes Big_quotes Best_quotes Do_quotes Job_quotes Requirements_quotes Minimum_quotes Complexity_quotes Power_quotes Effort_quotes

English_Proverbs

Experts Know Why

“Experts know why they do what they do.”

  • Source: Original source is unknown.

David_Epstein

Complete Freedom

“In other words, when anything is possible, it becomes nearly impossible to do anything new. Complete freedom, paradoxically, leads to conformity.”
  • Source: David Epstein in the book “Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better”. Published 2026 by Riverhead Books. Page 58. ISBN 978-0593715734 (Ebook).
Keywords: Anything_quotes Possibility_quotes Become_quotes Near_quotes Impossible_quotes Do_quotes New_quotes Complete_quotes Freedom_quotes Paradox_quotes Lead_quotes Conform_quotes

Creative Constraints

“That's the thing about constraints that spur creativity: They shut down many possibilities, but stimulate more varied and novel exploration of those that remain... Given complete freedom, our very strong urge is to follow the ‘path of least resistance.’ Specifically, we do only what we have done before, or follow the first example that jumps to mind.”
  • Source: David Epstein in the book “Inside the Box: How Constraints Make Us Better”. Published 2026 by Riverhead Books. Page 58. ISBN 978-0593715734 (Ebook).
Keywords: Thing_quotes Constraint_quotes Spur_quotes Creativity_quotes Shut_quotes Down_quotes Many_quotes Possibility_quotes Stimulate_quotes Variety_quotes Novel_quotes Explore_quotes Remain_quotes Give_quotes Complete_quotes Freedom_quotes Strong_quotes Urge_quotes Follow_quotes Path_quotes Least_quotes Resistance_quotes Do_quotes What_quotes Before_quotes Follow_quotes First_quotes Example_quotes Jump_quotes Mind_quotes

Gordon_Glegg

Engineering Stars

“A scientist can discover a new star but he cannot make one. He would have to ask an engineer to do it for him.”
  • Source: Glegg, G. L. (1969). The Design of Design. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-0-511-79996-9. Introduction.
Keywords: Science_quotes Engineering_quotes Discovery_quotes Star_quotes Make_quotes Ask_quotes Do_quotes

Robert_Heinlein

Lazy Progress

“Progress doesn't come from early risers — progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.”
  • Source: Written by Robert A. Heinlein in the book “Time Enough for Love”, published in 1973 by Putnam's Sons, ISBN: 0-399-11151-4. Variations on a Theme I: Affairs of State, page 53. Character: Lazarus Long.
Keywords: Progress_quotes Early_quotes Riser_quotes Lazy_quotes Men_quotes Look_quotes Way_quotes Do_quotes Thing_quotes

Tomorrow

“Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds.”.
  • Source: Written by Robert A. Heinlein in the book “Time Enough for Love”, published in 1973 by Putnam's Sons, ISBN: 0-399-11151-4. ISBN: 9781101503072 (ebook). Page 346 (Kindle edition).
Keywords: Never_quotes Do_quotes Today_quotes Put_quotes Off_quotes Tomorrow_quotes Improve_quotes Odds_quotes Probability_quotes

Grace_Hopper

Never Take First No

“Never, never, never take the first no. There are a certain number of people in business, industry, and government who always say no the first time you suggest something new, because they're lazy. And if they say yes, they're going to have to do something about it. But there's another group, they are even more dangerous in a way, who always say no the first time you say something new or different because they want to see if you believe in it enough to come back and ask again. So never take the first no. Always go back and ask again. As a matter of fact, I take about four no's and then I figure out how to get around the guy, but that technique comes with age. I ran into one of these guys... I noticed he always said no to things the first time. So the next time I went in to suggest something I said ‘let's pretend this is the second time I'm presenting this’. I said, ‘you always say no the first time’. And he looked at me with the funniest expression. I had him over the barrel from then on because I'd just go and say, ‘this is the fourth time I'm requesting this, let's just say yes now’. So never, never, never take the first no on a new concept. It's terribly important that we listen to our youngsters.”
  • Source: Grace Hopper in a lecture delivered 1982-08-19 at the NSA (National Security Agency). Video available at YouTube as “NSA Releases Internal 1982 Lecture by Computing Pioneer Rear Admiral Grace Hopper”, channel The Black Vault Originals, online at <https://youtu.be/_bP14OzIJWI?si=wcUTl04b4p4scY6k>, posted 2024-08, retrieved 2024-08. Quote in video at 26:28.
Keywords: Never_quotes First_quotes Yes_quotes No_quotes Certain_quotes People_quotes Business_quotes Industry_quotes Government_quotes Always_quotes Say_quotes Time_quotes Suggest_quotes New_quotes Lazy_quotes Do_quotes Another_quotes Group_quotes Dangerous_quotes Different_quotes See_quotes Believe_quotes Enough_quotes Come_quotes Back_quotes Ask_quotes Figure_quotes Around_quotes Guy_quotes Technique_quotes Age_quotes Pretend_quotes Second_quotes Present_quotes Look_quotes Funny_quotes Expression_quotes Over_quotes Barrel_quotes Fourth_quotes Request_quotes Now_quotes Concept_quotes Terrible_quotes Important_quotes Listen_quotes Youngster_quotes

Get Something Done

“The best way to get something done was to do it, and if necessary, apologize.”
  • Source: Grace Hopper in a lecture delivered 1982-08-19 at the NSA (National Security Agency). Video available at YouTube as “NSA Releases Internal 1982 Lecture by Computing Pioneer Rear Admiral Grace Hopper”, channel The Black Vault Originals, online at <https://youtu.be/_bP14OzIJWI?si=wcUTl04b4p4scY6k>, posted 2024-08, retrieved 2024-08. Quote in video at 29:05.
Keywords: Best_quotes Way_quotes Done_quotes Do_quotes Necessary_quotes Apologize_quotes

Millisecond

“I normally drive all of my bosses totally nuts. Because I won't do anything until I understand what I have been told to do. So, when you tell me to do something I start asking questions until I get a clear picture of what I've been told to do... so I naturally said, ‘What's a millisecond?’ Well they told me it's a thousandth of a second, and I had a problem immediately. I can see a second go by on a clock but darned if I could see a thousandth of it. So, I said, ‘Please show me a millisecond.’ And nobody but nobody would show me a millisecond. Time went on with me still fussing 'til somebody stuck a finder in one of my programs and said, ‘Hey, you wasted five microseconds’ and I said ‘So what? What's a Microsecond?’ Well, they told me it's a millionth of a second, and again I had a problem. In the first place I didn't know what a million of anything was. The biggest check I had ever seen was less than a thousand dollars. I didn't know what a million was, and if I didn't know what a million was, I didn't know what a millionth was. And I fussed and fumed because I wanted to know what a microsecond was. I got nowhere. Pretty soon over in the engineering building they started talking about circuits that act in nano seconds, billionths of a second. Well that really had me on the ropes, because in the first place I didn't know what a billion was. I don't think most of those guys up in Washington do either. And if you don't know what a billion is, how on earth do you know what a billionth is? I fussed and fumed. Finally, one morning in total desperation I called over to the engineering building and I said, ‘Please cut off a nanosecond and send it over to me.’ And I brought you some today. Now what I wanted when I asked for a nanosecond was, I wanted a piece of wire which would represent the maximum distance that electricity could travel in a billionth of a second. Of course, it wouldn't really be through wire. It would be out in space at the velocity of light. So, if you start at the velocity of light and use your friendly computer, you discover that a nanosecond is 11.8 inches long/ The maximum limiting distance that electricity can travel in a billionth of a second. Well, I was real[ly] happy with my nanosecond. I looked at it from all angles. I thought about it. I looked at wall switches and counted the distance some of those lights went on. Geez, these may have taken a couple of thousand nanoseconds. Finally at the end of about a week I called back and said, ‘Look. I need something to compare this to. Could I please have a microsecond?’ I've only got one microsecond so I can't give you each one. There's a microsecond. 984 feet. I sometimes think we ought to hang one over every programmer's desk so they'll know exactly what they're throwing away when they throw away a microsecond. I hope you all get some of these nanoseconds. I've got lots of them with me. They're absolutely marvelous for explaining to wives and children, and admirals and generals. You may find yourself in a spot where you have to explain why two pieces of equipment have to be close together, Or explain to an admiral why it takes so damn long to send a message via satellite because there are an awful lot of nanoseconds... But I said I wanted to add in 300 picoseconds. Now a picosecond is a thousandth of a nanosecond. The best way to make picoseconds is to get one of those big pepper grinders and you can make picoseconds all over the table.”
  • Source: Grace Hopper in a lecture delivered 1982-08-19 at the NSA (National Security Agency). Video available at YouTube as “NSA Releases Internal 1982 Lecture by Computing Pioneer Rear Admiral Grace Hopper”, channel The Black Vault Originals, online at <https://youtu.be/_bP14OzIJWI?si=wcUTl04b4p4scY6k>, posted 2024-08, retrieved 2024-08. Quote in video at 40:25.
Keywords: Boss_quotes Do_quotes Understand_quotes Told_quotes Question_quotes Requirements_quotes Millisecond_quotes Microsecond_quotes Nanosecond_quotes Picosecond_quotes Wire_quotes Electricity_quotes Speed_quotes Velocity_quotes Light_quotes Pepper_quotes Grind_quotes Analogy_quotes

Steve_Jobs

Deciding

“Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.”
  • Source: Steve Jobs in “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, published by Prabhat Prakashan in 2020. ISBN: 9789351869191.
Keywords: Decide_quotes Do_quotes Important_quotes Requirements_quotes

William_S_Knudsen

Factory

“If you wanted to build a factory, the thing to do was to make a layout of your machinery, and the flow of material, and then build a building around it.”
  • Source: Words spoken by William S. Knudsen as recorded in the book “Knudsen: A Biography” written by Norman Beasley. Published in 2017 by Papamoa Press. Originally published in 1947. Page 54. Online at https://www.google.com/books/edition/Knudsen/OS5BDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1 (retrieved 2024-05-19). Also recorded in the book “Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II”. Written by Arthur Herman. Published in 2012 by Random House, New York, NY. ISBN: 9780679604631 (ebook). Page 22.
Keywords: Want_quotes Build_quotes Factory_quotes Do_quotes Layout_quotes Machinery_quotes Flow_quotes Material_quotes Building_quotes Around_quotes Planning_quotes

Niccolò_Machiavelli

Pleased and Deceived

“Men in general, are so pleased with their own doings and so deceived about them.”
Keywords: Men_quotes Please_quotes Do_quotes Deceive_quotes Pride_quotes Arrogance_quotes

Edward_A_Murphy

Murphy's Law

Popular Version:
  “If anything can go wrong, it will.”
Original Version First Report:
  “If there are two or more ways to do something
   and one of those results in a catastrophe,
   then someone will do it that way”
Original Version Second Report:
  "If there is any way to do it wrong, he will."
  • Source:
    • Attributed to Edward A Murphy, reported in the book “Murphy's Law and Other Reasons Why Things Go Wrong” written by Arthur Bloch, first edition publish in 1977 by Price/Stern/Sloan, Los Angeles, California. ISBN-10: 0843104287. ISBN-13: 978-0843104288.
    • Attributed to Edward A Murphy, reported in the article “The Science of Murphy’s Law” written by Robert A. J. Matthews, published in 'Scientific America, volume 276 number 4, April 1997, DOI: 10.1038/scientificamerican0497-88.
    • Attributed to Edward A Murphy, reported in the book “The Making of a Scientist” by Anne Roe, published in 1953 by Dodd and Mead, New York, NY. ISBN 10: 0837171512. ISBN 13: 9780837171517.
  • Notes: An idea expressed by Edward Aloysius Murphy Jr. in 1949 in reference to rocket sled engineering work.
Keywords: Engineering_quotes Something_quotes Can_quotes Go_quotes Wrong_quotes Way_quotes Do_quotes One_quotes Two_quotes Result_quotes Catastrophe_quotes Someone_quotes Anything_quotes Murphy(topic)_quotes Law_quotes

J_Robert_Oppenheimer

Technically Sweet

“When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and argue about what to do about it only after you've had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.”
Keywords: Sight_quotes Technology_quotes Sweet_quotes Argue_quotes Do_quotes After_quotes Success_quotes Way_quotes Atomic_quotes Engineering_quotes

World Going to Hell

“It is perfectly obvious that the whole world is going to hell. The only possible chance that it might not is that we do not attempt to prevent it from doing so.”
  • Source: Attributed to Oppenheimer by Alan Watts in Play to Live: Lectures of Alan Watts (1982) by Alan Watts [Author], Mark Watts [Editor, Photographer]Robert Oppenheimer.
Keywords: Perfect_quotes Obvious_quotes World_quotes Hell_quotes Possibility_quotes Chance_quotes Attempt_quotes Prevent_quotes Do_quotes Go_quotes

Cesare_Pavese

How You Do It

“It isn't what you do but how you do it that shows whether you are clever or not.”
  • Source: Chapter XVII. Pavese (1949/1950). A book. Entitled The Moon and the Bonfires. Written by Cesare Pavese. Published during 1950. Published by New York Review. Translated from Italian to English. Translated by R.W. Flint. ISBN 1590170210. Translated using a book.
Keywords: Do_quotes What_quotes How_quotes Show_quotes Clever_quotes

Pearl_and_Mackenzie

Three Levels of Causation

“A causal learner must master at least three distinct levels of cognitive ability: seeing, doing, and imagining.”
  • Source: Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie in “The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect”. Published by Basic Books of New York, NY in 2018. Chapter 1, page 27. ISBN 978-0465097616 (ebook).
Keywords: Causal_quotes Learner_quotes Master_quotes Level_quotes Cognitive_quotes Ability_quotes See_quotes Do_quotes Imagine_quotes

Alan_Perlis

Iterative Simulation Design

“1. A software system can best be designed if the testing is interlaced with the designing instead of being used after the design.
2. A simulation which matches the requirements contains the control which organizes the design of the system.
3. Through successive repetitions of this process of interlaced testing and design the model ultimately becomes the software system itself.
I think that it is the key of the approach that has been suggested, that there is no such question as testing things after the fact with simulation models, but that in effect the testing and the replacement of simulations with modules that are deeper and more detailed goes on with the simulation model controlling, as it were, the place and order in which these things are done.”
Keywords: Software_quotes System_quotes Design_quotes Process_quotes Interlace_quotes Testing_quotes Usage_quotes Simulation_quotes Match_quotes Requirements_quotes Control_quotes Organize_quotes Repetition_quotes Iteration_quotes Model_quotes Key_quotes Approach_quotes Suggestion_quotes Question_quotes After_quotes Fact_quotes Effect_quotes Replace_quotes Module_quotes Deep_quotes Detail_quotes Order_quotes Place_quotes Do_quotes Ultimate_quotes

Human Communication Limits

“A man can communicate with about five colleagues on a software project without too much difficulty. Likewise he can supervise about five people and know pretty well what they are doing. One would structure 120 people in three levels, in which no man is talking to more than about eight people, both across his level and up and down”
Keywords: Humanity_quotes Communication_quotes Colleague_quotes Software_quotes Project_quotes Difficulty_quotes Supervision_quotes People_quotes Knowledge_quotes Do_quotes Structure_quotes Level_quotes Talking_quotes Up_quotes Down_quotes Across_quotes

Programming Special Cases

“In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general - and often we know it too quickly.”
Keywords: Exception_quotes Special_Case_quotes Programming_quotes Do_quotes Requirements_quotes Generality_quotes Knowledge_quotes Quick_quotes

Programming Language Wish

“When someone says ‘I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done,’ give him a lollipop.”
Keywords: Programming_quotes Language_quotes Voice_Command_quotes Wish_quotes Do_quotes Lollipop_quotes Say_quotes

Programming Impossible for Most

Most people find the concept of programming obvious, but the doing impossible.”
Keywords: Programming_quotes Most_quotes People_quotes Conceptual_quotes Obvious_quotes Do_quotes Impossibility_quotes

Steven_Pinker

Mind and Brain

“The mind is what the brain does.”
  • Source: Steven Pinker (1997). How the Mind Works. New York, NY: W. W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-06973-0; eISBN 978-0-393-06973-0. Chapter 1 Section Reverse-Engineering the Psyche.
Keywords: Mind_quotes Brain_quotes Do_quotes

Learning

“But learning is not a surrounding gas or force field, and it does not happen by magic. It is made possible by innate machinery designed to do the learning... To understand learning, we need new ways of thinking to replace the prescientific metaphors — the mixtures and forces, the writing on slates and sculpting of blocks of marble.”
  • Source: Steven Pinker (1997). How the Mind Works. New York, NY: W. W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-06973-0; eISBN 978-0-393-06973-0. Chapter 1 Section Reverse-Engineering the Psyche.
Keywords: Learning_quotes Surround_quotes Gas_quotes Force_quotes Field_quotes Happen_quotes Magic_quotes Possibility_quotes Innate_quotes Machine_quotes Design_quotes Do_quotes Understanding_quotes Way_quotes Thinking_quotes Replace_quotes Science_quotes Prescience_quotes Metaphor_quotes Mix_quotes Writing_quotes Slate_quotes Block_quotes Marble_quotes Sculpting_quotes

Douglas_T_Ross

Requirements Prespecification

“The most deadly thing in software is the concept, which almost universally seems to be followed, that you are going to specify what you are going to do, and then do it. And that is where most of our troubles come from. The projects that are called successful, have met their specifications. But those specifications were based upon the designers’ ignorance before they started the job.”
Keywords: Deadly_quotes Software_quotes Conceptual_quotes Universal_quotes Seem_quotes Follow_quotes Specification_quotes PreSpecification_quotes Do_quotes Trouble_quotes Project_quotes Success_quotes Requirements_quotes Design_quotes Ignorance_quotes Start_quotes Job_quotes

Carl_Sagan

Changing Opinion

“In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.”
  • Source: Carl Sagan, Keynote address at CSICOP conference, 1987
Keywords: Science_quotes Scientist_quotes Often_quotes Happen_quotes Speak_quotes Good_quotes Argue_quotes Position_quotes Mistake_quotes Bias_quotes Change_quotes Mind_quotes Hearing_quotes Old_quotes View_quotes Do_quotes Humanity_quotes Pain_quotes Day_quotes Recall_quotes Political_quotes Religion_quotes

Mark_Seemann

Pair Programming

“...not everyone likes pair programming. As a typical introvert, I personally find the activity exhausting. It also leaves little room for contemplation, and it requires synchronization of schedules... it’s hardly practical or desirable to do it all the time.”
  • Source: Mark Seemann, “Code That Fits in Your Head: Heuristics for Software Engineering”. Published in 2021 by Pearson Education, Kindle Edition, ISBN: 978-0-13-746440-1. Page 190.

Keywords: Everyone_quotes Like_quotes Pair_quotes Programming_quotes Typical_quotes Introvert_quotes Activity_quotes Exhaust_quotes Leave_quotes Little_quotes Room_quotes Contemplation_quotes Require_quotes Synchronization_quotes Schedule_quotes Practical_quotes Desirable_quotes All_quotes Time_quotes Do_quotes

Rupert_Sheldrake

Empirical Approach

“Science needs to be liberated from these constrictive dogmas of mechanistic materialism... If we go beyond those dogmas, science gets much more interesting. All sorts of new research become possible. New questions can be asked. We can find out more about nature and more about consciousness by doing science in a new more open way. But what remains part of science so crucial to it is the empirical approach. The putting forward of hypotheses, the critical discussion, and the testing of hypotheses by experiment, the scientific method.”
  • Source: Rupert Sheldrake. The video “Nature's Hidden Intelligence: Morphic Fields”. Online at https://youtu.be/qrIlWrGe4w4?t=4894. Posted 2025-01-03. Video offset 1:21:34.
Keywords: Need_quotes Liberate_quotes Constrict_quotes Dogma_quotes Mechanistic_quotes Materialism_quotes Interesting_quotes New_quotes Research_quotes Possible_quotes Question_quotes Ask_quotes Find_quotes Nature_quotes Consciousness_quotes Do_quotes Open_quotes Way_quotes Remain_quotes Part_quotes Science_quotes Crucial_quotes Empirical_quotes Approach_quotes Hypothesis_quotes Critical_quotes Discussion_quotes Test_quotes Experiment_quotes Scientific_Method_quotes Method_quotes

Herbert_Simon

Human Limitations

“What a person cannot do he or she will not do, no matter how strong the urge to do it.”
Keywords: Human_quotes Person_quotes Do_quotes Strength_quotes Urge_quotes Capability_quotes

Alfred_P_Sloan

Greatest Thrill

“The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs. There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.”

  • Source:
    • Alfred P. Sloan in his book “Adventures of a White-Collar Man”, published in 1941 by Doubleday Press, New York, NY. First edition. Also quoted in: John Bourne (2000), Learning Effectiveness and Faculty Satisfaction. p. 11.
Keywords: Thrill_quotes Life_quotes Offer_quotes Create_quotes Construct_quotes Develop_quotes Useful_quotes Fail_quotes Recognize_quotes Pay_quotes Tribute_quotes Creative_quotes Spirit_quotes Job_quotes Pioneer_quotes Individual_quotes Courage_quotes Ambition_quotes Overcome_quotes Obstacle_quotes Try_quotes Do_quotes Worthwhile_quotes New_quotes Different_quotes

Baruch_Spinoza

Free Will and Hidden Causes

“Herefrom it follows, first, that men think themselves free inasmuch as they are conscious of their volitions and desires, and never even dream, in their ignorance, of the causes which have disposed them so to wish and desire. Secondly, that men do all things for an end, namely, for that which is useful to them, and which they seek.”
Keywords: Free_Will_quotes Causality_quotes Follow_quotes Men_quotes Think_quotes Free_quotes Conscious_quotes Volition_quotes Desire_quotes Dream_quotes Ignorance_quotes Dispose_quotes Wish_quotes Do_quotes End_quotes Useful_quotes Seek_quotes Hidden_quotes

Albert_Szent-Györgyi

Greatest Mistake

“There is but one safe way to avoid mistakes: to do nothing or, at least, to avoid doing something new. This, however, in itself, may be the greatest mistake of all.”
Keywords: Safe_quotes Way_quotes Avoidance_quotes Mistake_quotes New_quotes Do_quotes Nothing_quotes

Hunter_S_Thompson

Advice

“You ask advice: ah, what a very human and very dangerous thing to do! For to give advice to a man who asks what to do with his life implies something very close to egomania. To presume to point a man to the right and ultimate goal — to point with a trembling finger in the RIGHT direction is something only a fool would take upon himself.”
  • Source: A letter from Hunter S. Thompson written in 1958 to his friend Hume Logan. A copy of the letter is found in the book “Letters of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience” edited by Shaun Usher published in 2014 by Chronicle Books, ISBN 978-1452134253.
Keywords: Advice_quotes Human_quotes Danger_quotes Give_quotes Man_quotes Ask_quotes Do_quotes Life_quotes Imply_quotes Egomania_quotes Presume_quotes Point_quotes Right_quotes Ultimate_quotes Goal_quotes Tremble_quotes Finger_quotes Direction_quotes Fool_quotes

Alan_Turing

See Ahead

“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”
  • Source: From the paper entitled “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” by Alan Turing. Published in 1936 in “Mind”, volume 49, number 236.
Keywords: See_quotes Short_quotes Distance_quotes Ahead_quotes Plenty_quotes Need_quotes Do_quotes Future_quotes

Shannon_Vallor

Computer Does

“The computer did precisely what we told it to do, just not what we thought we had told it to do. Much of software engineering is simply figuring out how to close the gap between those two things.”
  • Source: From the book “The AI Mirror” by Shannon Vallor. Published 2024 by Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0197759066. Chapter 2, page 45.
Keywords: Computer_quotes Precision_quotes Told_quotes Do_quotes Thought_quotes Software_quotes Engineering_quotes Simple_quotes Figure_quotes Close_quotes Gap_quotes Between_quotes Requirements_quotes

Generative AI

“It’s what generative AI tools are designed to do — generate new content that looks or sounds right. Whether it is right is another matter altogether.”
  • Source: From the book “The AI Mirror” by Shannon Vallor. Published 2024 by Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0197759066. Chapter 2, page 48.
Keywords: AI_quotes Artificial_quotes Intelligence_quotes Generative_quotes Tool_quotes Design_quotes Do_quotes Generate_quotes Content_quotes Look_quotes Sound_quotes Right_quotes Another_quotes Matter_quotes

Gerald_Weinberg

Amateur and Professional Programmers

“The amateur... is looking for a way to get the job done. If he runs into difficulty, all he wants is to surmount it — the manner of doing so is of little consequence. Not so, however, for the professional. She may well be aware of numerous ways of circumnavigating the problem at hand. She may even employ one of them for the immediate purpose of getting the job done. But her work does not stop there; it begins there. It begins because she must understand why she did not understand, in order that she may prepare herself for the programs she may someday write which will require that understanding. The amateur, then, is learning about his problem... The professional, conversely, is learning about her profession — programming — and the problem being programmed is only one incidental step in her process of development.”
  • Source: Chapter 7. Weinberg, G. M. (2011). The Psychology of Computer Programming (Silver anniversary edition) | 1971. Weinberg & Weinberg.
Keywords: Amateur_quotes Professional_quotes Job_quotes Difficulty_quotes Circumnavigation_quotes Problem_quotes Work_quotes Understanding_quotes Program_quotes Programming_quotes Programmer_quotes Preparation_quotes Process_quotes Development_quotes Look_quotes Way_quotes Surmount_quotes Manner_quotes Do_quotes Little_quotes Consequence_quotes Numerous_quotes Hand_quotes Employ_quotes Immediate_quotes Purpose_quotes Stop_quotes Begin_quotes Order_quotes Write_quotes Someday_quotes Require_quotes Learning_quotes Converse_quotes Profession_quotes Incidental_quotes Step_quotes

Stephen_Wolfram

Paradigm Change

“When you change the paradigm, lots of stuff can come out. In science, the biggest paradigm change that's already happened... which is model things in nature with programs not with equations. For 300 years there was this tradition that [if] you want to make a model in science that's an exact model, write down a mathematical equation. People don't do that anymore in most areas of science... It's fun to see this transition from what seems impossible to what becomes obvious.”
  • Source: Spoken by Stephen Wolfram in a video interview with Brian Keating recorded in the YouTube video ‘What is Time? Stephen Wolfram’s Groundbreaking New Theory’ published on channel ‘Dr. Brian Keating’ on 2024-12-02. Video offset 1:13:57. Online at https://youtu.be/c-RO3vM10Ok?si=i-XspeEtzqA3jPl9 retrieved 2024.
Keywords: Change_quotes Paradigm_quotes Science_quotes Happen_quotes Model_quotes Nature_quotes Program_quotes Algorithm_quotes Equation_quotes Year_quotes Tradition_quotes Exact_quotes Mathematics_quotes People_quotes Do_quotes Area_quotes Fun_quotes Transition_quotes Seem_quotes Impossible_quotes Become_quotes Obvious_quotes

Computational Irreducibility

“I’ve increasingly come to view the whole fundamental story of science as being about the interplay between computational irreducibility and computational reducibility. The computational nature of things inevitably leads to computational irreducibility. But there are slices of computational reducibility that inevitably exist on top of this irreducibility that are what make it possible for us — as computationally bounded entities — to identify meaningful scientific laws and to do science.”
Keywords: View_quotes Whole_quotes Fundamental_quotes Story_quotes Science_quotes Interplay_quotes Between_quotes Computation_quotes Irredicible_quotes Reducible_quotes Nature_quotes Inevitable_quotes Lead_quotes Slice_quotes Exist_quotes Top_quotes Make_quotes Possible_quotes Bound_quotes Entity_quotes Identify_quotes Meaning_quotes Law_quotes Do_quotes

Edward_Yourdon

What to Do

“Solution: What to Do:
→ Hire the best people you can.
→ Pay special attention to proper training of your people.
→ Provide an exemplary environment in which your people can feel motivated and have fun and do good work.
→ Pay attention to effective project teams.”
  • Source: Edward Yourdon in the book “Decline and Fall of the American Programmer”. Published in 1992 by Prentice Hall. ISBN: 0-13-203670-3. Chapter 3, section 3.5, page 54.
Keywords: Do_quotes Hire_quotes Best_quotes People_quotes Provide_quotes Exemplary_quotes Environment_quotes Feel_quotes Motivation_quotes Fun_quotes Good_quotes Work_quotes Effective_quotes Project_quotes Team_quotes Solution_quotes

Shoshana_Zuboff

Abstract Work

“As the work that people do becomes more abstract, the need for positive motivation and internal commitment becomes all the more crucial.”
  • Source: Zuboff, S. (1988). In The Age Of The Smart Machine: The Future Of Work And Power. New York, NY: Basic Books, p. 291. ISBN:0465032125.
Keywords: Work_quotes Abstraction_quotes People_quotes Motivation_quotes Commitment_quotes Do_quotes Need_quotes Positive_quotes Internal_quotes Crucial_quotes
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