David Parnas Quotes
Requirements in mathematical language are no use unless they are easier to read than the code.

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People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.
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It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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There's nothing wrong with doing sequels, they're just easier to sell.
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I just always found it easier to be the same guy onstage as you are offstage.
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It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.
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The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O.
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The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.
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It's still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on the globe.
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It's easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission.
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The law functions as formal embodiment of a moral code, not as free-standing substitute for it.
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It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she'd had enough of that; she wanted to live!
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People aren't grapes - you can't weigh them in a bunch, but I guess it's easier than dealing with people as individuals.
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Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
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The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.
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I'm just saying it's easier to kill a cat than dispose of a car.
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Acknowledge your will and speak to us all, "This alone is what I will to be!" Hang your own penal code up above you: we want to be its enforcers!
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Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows uniformly and by another name is called duration. Relative, apparent, and common time is any sensible and external measure (precise or imprecise) of duration by means of motion; such as a measure-for example, an hour, a day, a month, a year-is commonly used instead of true time.
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I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration.
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True knowledge of good and evil as we possess is merely abstract or general, and the judgment which we pass on the order of things and the connection of causes, with a view to determining what is good or bad for us in the present, is rather imaginary than real.
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If your purpose is to liberate yourself and others into love and freedom, then you should do whatever magnifies the love and freedom in your life and in the lives of whom your actions affect.
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He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lives a great street-sweeper who did his job well'
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Requirements in mathematical language are no use unless they are easier to read than the code.