David Parnas Quotes
Requirements in mathematical language are no use unless they are easier to read than the code.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Babies and toddlers are mostly what I've been exposed to at this point. I'm hoping parenting just gets much easier after this. It does, right?
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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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For better or worse, I've become the person the Adams Estate has entrusted to guide Dirk Gently into new mediums and to new audiences. I take that responsibility pretty seriously, which is, I'm guessing, where Ilias's comment about me being a "hands-on collaborator" (code for control freak) comment comes from.
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Each time a friend dies, the present becomes the past, in an instant.
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And of course, in the case of Barack Obama, had he not won primaries - and particularly the heavily important caucus in Iowa - if the public hadn't shown that they were prepared to vote for a black president, we wouldn't have one today.
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Requirements in mathematical language are no use unless they are easier to read than the code.
