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Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.


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But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensable luxury, but a simple necessity.



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Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence.



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A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.



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In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.



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A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want.



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C++ is an insult to the human brain



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Time pressure gradually corrupts an engineer's standard of quality and perfection. It has a detrimental effect on people as well as products



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Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling -- the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration.



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Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. (Or, sometimes known by] Grove [the head of Intel] giveth and Gates [the head of Microsoft] taketh away.)





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