Logo
Quote by Dave Parnas
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications. – Dave Parnas

Other quotes by Dave Parnas
Other Quotes from
Computers
category

Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on! – Jonathan Shapiro

Category:
Computers

A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind. – Joseph Weizenbaum

Category:
Computers

Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity. – Dennis Ritchie

Category:
Computers

Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone elses patent. – Miguel de Icaza

Category:
Computers

Random Quotes

I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted. – Luke Ford

Category:
Religion

Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which the fruits of science are used. – Polykarp Kusch

Category:
Knowledge

The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains. – Johann von Goethe

Category:
Challenges

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. РFran̤ois VI de la Rochefoucault

Category:
Marriage