“Portal Bridge is based on a design from the 1840s and was already obsolete shortly after it was completed in 1910. It's a swing bridge that needs to be opened several times a week so barges can pass up and down the river. It takes about a half an hour. The problem is it fails to lock back into place on a regular basis.” NeedsProblemHoursHalfFailingWeekDesignRiversBasesBridgesSwingsLocksUp And DownObsoletePortalBarges Author:Ray LaHood
“The real bug here is that the design of the system even permits this class of bug. It is unconscionable that someone designing a critical piece of security infrastructure would design the system in such a way that it does not fail safe.” WayDoeRealClassPiecesFailingSecurityDesignSafeCriticalPermitBugsInfrastructure Author:Jamie Zawinski
“There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from anothe quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence. I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men and become the instruments of their own undoing.” PeopleMenWayShouldMayMadeEnoughGovernmentEarthNationsPowerfulFailingDangerDesignConcernDestructionInstrumentsAccomplishServantQuartersImplicitCarelessnessNegligencePublic ServantsUndoingDupesInattentionScrutinize Author:Daniel Webster
“There's no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.” TryingIdeasFailingDesignSimplicity In Design Author:Jonathan Ive
“If our designs are failing due to the constant rain of changing requirements, it is our designs that are at fault. We must somehow find a way to make our designs resilient to such changes and protect them from rotting.” IfsWayLearningFailingDesignProtectRainConstantFaultsSimplicityDuesProgrammingRequirementsResilientComputer ProgrammingProgramming LanguagesComputer LanguageRotting Author:Robert Cecil Martin