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My biggest growth as a professor came when I realized I don’t teach -— I help students learn.
— Jeff Offutt
2021
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
— Martin Fowler
1999
A good programmer looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.
— Scott W. Ambler
2019
Un beau palindrome : Éric notre valet alla te laver ton ciré (on peut tout aussi bien remplacer Éric par Luc).
— Me Capello
A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you’ve already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen.
— Paul Graham
[…​] the purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.
— Edsger W. Dijkstra
ACM Turing Lecture - 1972
[…​] the inability of real-time software to meet its primary non-functional requirements becomes apparent only in the later stages of development. When this happens, the design may have to be heavily and hurriedly modified […​]
— Bran Selic
Using models in real-time software design - 2003
Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful.
— G. E. P. Box and N. R. Draper
1987
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
— William Bruce Cameron
1963
A system is an open set of complementary, interacting parts, with properties, capabilities and behaviours emerging, both from the parts and from their interactions, to synthesize a unified whole.
— Derek Hitchins
2008
The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.
— Edsger Dijkstra
ACM Turing Lecture - 1972
There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
— C.A.R Hoare
Turing Award Lecture - 1980
Code is like humor. When you have to explain it, it’s bad.
— Cory House
Twitter - 2013