Gerald Weinberg - Program Quotes

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If builders built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.

Gerald Weinberg

We have come through a strange cycle in programming, starting with the creation of programming itself as a human activity. Executives with the tiniest smattering of knowledge assume that anyone can write a program, and only now are programmers beginning to win their battle for recognition as true professionals.

Gerald Weinberg

When program developers are not territorial about their code and encourage others to look for bugs and potential improvements, progress speeds up dramatically.

Gerald Weinberg

Asking for efficiency and adaptability in the same program is like asking for a beautiful and modest wife. Although beauty and modesty have been known to occur in the same woman, we'll probably have to settle for one or the other. At least that's better than neither.

Gerald Weinberg