Software Engineering Proverbs

Software Engineering Proverbs

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We reject kings, presidents, and voting. We believe in rough consensus and running code.
--Dave Clark (1992)...
I am a design chauvinist. I believe that good design is magical and not to be lightly tinkered with.
Software is Too Important to be Left to Programmers, by Meilir Page-Jones.
"If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture....
Abraham Lincoln reportedly said that, given eight hours to chop down a tree, he'd spend six sharpening his axe.
-- TidBITS 654, quoted by Derek K. Miller, via Art Eva...
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) " The Man who was Orthodox", via Paul Black...

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