Software Design Quotes - Page 5

• ...your Web browser is Ronald Reagan.

  Neal Stephenson

  Design, Software, Browsers

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• Crappy old OSes have value in the basically negative sense that changing to new ones makes us wish we'd never been born.

  Neal Stephenson

  Design, Wish, Negative

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• ...wisdom is in large part the knowledge of how to avoid doing dumb things, and thus grows globally as a function of the published inventory of stupid mistakes.

  Tim Bray

  Mistake, Stupid, Design

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• Find the simplest model that is not a lie is the key to better software design.

  David Parnas

  Lying, Keys, Design

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• I have found that meditation has helped me with my academic career and has given me insights into musical composition and software design.

  Frederick Lenz

  Careers, Design, Meditation

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• I no longer teach meditation, only software design.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Design, Meditation

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• If you like your remote messaging fat, dumb, and interoperable, you could also look into the SOAP libraries distributed with Ruby.

  Dave Thomas

  Design, Dumb, Library

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