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Quote by Jim Highsmith

“A methodology's weight is a product of its size and ceremony.”

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Jim Highsmith is a renowned software engineer born in 1945. He has extensive experience in the field of software development, particularly in the research and promotion of agile development methods. more

“I am a design chauvinist. I believe that good design is magical and not to be lightly tinkered with. The difference between a great design and a lousy one is in the meshing of the thousand details that either fit or don't, and the spirit of the passionate intellect that has tied them together, or tried. That's why programming - or buying software - on the basis of "lists of features" is a doomed and misguided effort. The features can be thrown together, as in a garbage can, or carefully laid together and interwoven in elegant unification, as in APL, or the Forth language, or the game of chess.”

“Those who write software only for pay should go hurt some other field.”

Should Writing Hurt Pay Fields Software

Author:Erik Naggum

“Of the four project development variables - scope, cost, time and quality - quality isn't really a free variable. The only possible values are "excellent" and "insanely excellent", depending on whether lives are at stake.”

Values Quality Four Development Cost Projects Excellent Stakes Scope Variables

Book:Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change

Source: Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change

“I have a feeling that any simple problem can be made arbitrarily difficult by imposing a suitably heavy administrative process around the development.”

Made Feelings Problem Process Difficult Simple Development Heavy Imposing Administrative

Author:Joe Armstrong

“Very clever implementation techniques are required to implement this insanity correctly and usefully, not to mention that code written with this feature used and abused east and west is exceptionally exciting to debug.”

Used Written Exciting West East Technique Clever Code Features Insanity Implementation Very Clever East And West Used And Abused

Author:Erik Naggum

“Just getting something to work usually means writing reams of code fast, like a Stephen King novel, but making it maintainable and high-quality code that really expresses the ideas well, is like writing poetry. Art is taking away.”

Writing Wells Mean Art Ideas Quality Novel Kings Art Is Code High Quality Writing Poetry

Author:Erik Naggum

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