Steve McConnell Quotes
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Engineering is the application of scientific principles toward practical ends. If the engineering isn't practical, it's bad engineering.
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It's better to wait for a productive programmer to become available than it is to wait for the first available programmer to become productive.
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The trouble with quick and dirty is that dirty remains long after quick has been forgotten.
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The default movement on a software project should be in the direction of taking elements of the software away to make it simpler rather than adding elements to make it more complex.
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In software, the chain isn't as strong as its weakest link; it's as weak as all the weak links multiplied together.
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A blanket attempt to avoid mistakes is the biggest mistake of all.
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A brute force solution that works is better than an elegant solution that doesn't work.
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It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it.