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“We get things wrong before we get things right.”

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Alistair Cockburn is a respected software developer recognized for his contributions to software engineering. Born on November 19, 1953, he has made significant impacts on the industry through his methodologies and practices. 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

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