David Parnas Quotes
Requirements in mathematical language are no use unless they are easier to read than the code.
David Parnas
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Rita Mae Brown
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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.
Jasper Fforde
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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!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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.
Isaac Newton
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I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration.
William Petty
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Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.
William Gibson