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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A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an obstinate mule, until compelled by beating and curses to put its foot into that dirty puddle.
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It is, I think, one of the greatest honors that you can bestow on the code talkers. I'm really happy about it.
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Child poverty in the United States declined after the work requirement was put in there. People realized that they had to work and people went out and worked and they got off welfare.
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A physical law must possess mathematical beauty.
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When you think of all the things that have happened, since that problem with computers in 2000 and everybody was afraid and they were buying water, imagine what Millennium would do with all the things that are going on in the world right now. It has the capacity to be a movie. But, anyway, I loved doing it. It changed my life because the guy that I was playing was so much more educated and smarter than I was, so I had to live up to it.
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No. You didn't do a good job. That's why you were let go.
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Requirements in mathematical language are no use unless they are easier to read than the code.
