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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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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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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Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.
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Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left over for the others.
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Lighting was very primitive. And still it was really the way to learn because sometimes some of the modern technology is so extreme and so compartmentalized that we lose sight of exactly what we're doing.
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When I need to nail that riff to the cross, Marshall will always provide the hammer!
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You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.
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In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped.
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Requirements in mathematical language are no use unless they are easier to read than the code.
