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“A good test case is a test case that has a high probability of detecting an undiscovered error, not a test case that show that the program works correctly.”

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Glenford Myers

Glenford Myers is a renowned author, born on December 12, 1946. His works span across various fields, including literature, history, and philosophy. more

“Will highly comprehensible code, by virtue of being easy to modify, inevitably be supplanted by increasingly less elegant code until some equilibrium is achieved between comprehensibility and fragility? Perhaps simple on the outside/fragile on the inside can be an effective survival strategy for evolving artifacts.”

Easy Simple Virtue Survival Strategy Evolve Code Fragile Elegant Equilibrium Fragility Artifacts

Author:Brian Foote

“I shall never forget my admiration for that German pilot, who single handed, fought seven of us for ten minutes. I saw him go into a fairly steep dive and so I continued to watch, and then saw the triplane hit the ground and disappear into a thousand fragments, for it seemed to me that it literally went into powder.”

Forget Watches Saws Minutes Thousand Ten Seven Disappear Admiration Never Forget Pilots Fragments Powder Steep

Book:Flying Fury: Five Years in the Royal Flying Corps

Source: Flying Fury: Five Years in the Royal Flying Corps

“History is the seed bed of the future.”

Bed Seeds

Book:Say Yes to Your Life: Daily Meditations for Alcoholics and Addicts

Source: Say Yes to Your Life: Daily Meditations for Alcoholics and Addicts

“The linguistic and literary reality of the biblical tradition is folkloristic in essence. The concept of a benei Israel ... is a reflection of no sociopolitical entity of the historical state of Israel of the Assyrian period”