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If we play genie and grant client wishes, we are apt to construct castles of code in the air.
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The best meetings get real work done. When your people learn that your meetings actually accomplish something, they will stop making excuses to be elsewhere.
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We offer them mediocrity while calling it magic. We offer them the illusion of intelligent software, seducing them into surrendering the task of thinking to the machine. Of course, the machine isn't thinking, which means that nobody is.
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Born:
February 14, 1943
(age 82)
Bio:
Larry LeRoy Constantine is an American software engineer, professor in the Center for Exact Sciences and Engineering at the University of Madeira Portugal, and considered one of the pioneers of computing.
Known for:
Software for use (1999)
Constantine on Peopleware (1995)
The Peopleware papers (2001)
Family paradigms (1986)
Treasures of the island (1976)
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