#system quotes

The designer of a new kind of system must participate fully in the implementation.

Donald E. Knuth

#designer #system #implementation

... the designer of a new system must not only be the implementor and the first large-scale user; the designer should also write the first user manual. ... If I had not participated fully in all these activities, literally hundreds of improvements would never have been made, because I would never have thought of them or perceived why they were important.

Donald E. Knuth

#user #manual #system

Every large system that works started as a small system that worked.

Anonymous

#system #large

Object Motto: Ask not first what the system does: As what it does it to!

Bertrand Meyer

Object-Oriented Software Construction (Book/CD-ROM) (2nd Edition) by Bertrand Meyer

ISBN: 0136291554 This book is available from Amazon

#system #object-oriented #software

Real systems have no top.

Bertrand Meyer

Object-Oriented Software Construction (Book/CD-ROM) (2nd Edition) by Bertrand Meyer

ISBN: 0136291554 This book is available from Amazon

#system #object-oriented

The focus on external interfaces is inevitable in a method that asks "What will the system do for the end user?" s the key question: the answer will tend to emphasize the most external aspects.

Bertrand Meyer

Object-Oriented Software Construction (Book/CD-ROM) (2nd Edition) by Bertrand Meyer

ISBN: 0136291554 This book is available from Amazon

#interface #system #question

A software system should be like a Mozart symphony: Perfection at all levels.

Bjarne Däcker

#software #system #perfect

...the organization chart will initially reflect the first system design, which is almost surely not the right one [...] as one learns, he changes the design [...]. Management structures also need to be changed as the system changes...

Frederick P. Brooks

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition) by Frederick P. Brooks

ISBN: 0201835959 This book is available from Amazon

#system #design #management #changes

If a project has not achieved a system architecture, including its rationale, the project should not proceed to full-scale system development. Specifying the architecture as a deliverable enables its use throughout the development and maintenance process.

Barry Boehm

#project #system #development #architecture #process

The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings of their operating systems.

Bill Gates

#programmer #program #computer #science #operating #system #learning

The programmer's primary weapon in the never-ending battle against slow system is to change the intramodular structure. Our first response should be to reorganize the modules' data structures.

Frederick P. Brooks

Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction by Steve C McConnell

ISBN: 1556154844 Page: 38 This book is available from Amazon

#programmer #system #data #structure

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A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable.

Leslie Lamport

#failure #distributed #system

If you don't have a good system, make sure you get good users.

Anonymous

#user #system #bad

Companies should make their own enterprise systems as often as network security companies should manufacture their own aspirin.

Phil Simon

#enterprise #systems #system #failures

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