quotes

[ramky]

If there is to be peace in the world
There must be peace in the nations

If there is to be peace in the nations
There must be peace in the cities

If there is to be peace in the cities
There must be peace between neighbours

If there is to be peace between neighbours
There must be peace in the home

If there is to be peace in the home
There must be peace in the heart.

rachel : very true

[Sanguine Sridhar]

Don't ever forget your old friends when new one get added.... because.....

"A new broom may sweep clean, but the old brush knows all the corners"

[P_R]

My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
Indira Gandhi (1917 - 1984)

Here's another one from the straightspeaking Mdm.Gandhi: "My father was a statesman. I am a politician. My father was a saint. I am not."

[Anoushka]

Source : http://www.multicians.org/thvv/proverbs.html


A clever person solves a problem.
A wise person avoids it.

-- Einstein
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André Bensoussan <http://www.multicians.org/andre.html> once explained to me the difference between a programmer and a designer:

"If you make a general statement, a programmer says, 'Yes, *but*...'
while a designer says, 'Yes, *and*...'"
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No matter what the problem is,
it's always a people problem.

Jerry Weinberg<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0932633420/qid=1017867196/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/102-6531282-6264147>
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Wexelblat's Scheduling Algorithm:

Choose two:

- Good
- Fast
- Cheap

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Craziness is doing the same thing and expecting a different result.

Tom DeMarco <http://www.atlsysguild.com/GuildSite/TDM/Tom_DeMarco.html>,
rephrasing Einstein, who said

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
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"There's no time to stop for gas, we're already late"

-- Karin Donker
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Deming's 14 points

1. Create constancy of purpose.
2. Adopt the new philosophy.
3. Cease dependence on mass inspection to achieve quality.
4. Minimize total cost, not initial price of supplies.
5. Improve constantly the system of production and service.
6. Institute training on the job.
7. Institute leadership.
8. Drive out fear.
9. Break down barriers between departments.
10. Eliminate slogans, exhortations, and numerical targets.
11. Eliminate work standards (quotas) and management by objective.
12. Remove barriers that rob workers, engineers, and managers of their
right to pride of workmanship.
13. Institute a vigorous program of education and self-improvement.
14. Put everyone in the company to work to accomplish the
transformation.

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We know about as much about software quality problems as they knew about the Black Plague in the 1600s. We've seen the victims' agonies and helped burn the corpses. We don't know what causes it; we don't really know if there is only one disease. We just suffer -- and keep pouring our sewage into our water supply.

-- Tom Van Vleck
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The Troops Know

- The schedule doesn't have enough time for maintenance in it.
- A lot of bugs get past the tests.
- Most old code can't be maintained.

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To go faster, slow down. Everybody who knows about orbital mechanics understands that.

-- Scott Cherf
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Everybody Knows:

- Discipline is the best tool.
- Design first, then code.
- Don't patch bugs out, rewrite them out.
- Don't test bugs out, design them out.

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Everybody Knows:

- If you don't understand it, you can't program it.
- If you didn't measure it, you didn't do it.

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Everybody Knows:

If something is worth doing once, it's worth building a tool to do it.
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Your problem is another's solution;
Your solution will be his problem.
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Everybody Knows:

- If you've found 3 bugs in a program, best estimate is that there are
3 more.
- 60% of product cost comes after initial shipment.

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The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.

-- Albert Einstein
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On the radio the other night, Jimmy Connors said the best advice he ever got was from Bobby Riggs:

- do it
- do it right
- do it right now

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It is not enough to do your best: you must know what to do, and THEN do your best.

-- W. Edwards Deming
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A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.
Less good when they obey and acclaim him.
Worse when they fear and despise him.
Fail to honor people, and they fail to honor you.
But of a good leader, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, "We did this ourselves."

-- Lao-Tzu
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You must be the change
You wish to see in the world

-- Gandhi
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Experiment escorts us last,
His pungent company
Will not allow an axiom
An opportunity.

-- Emily Dickinson
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when the cart stops
do you whip the cart
or whip the ox?
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Q: How many QA testers does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: QA testers don't change anything. They just report that it's dark.

Kerry Zallar <http://www.testingstuff.com/>
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Q: How many software engineers does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: Just one. But the house falls down.

Andrew Siwko
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One test is worth a thousand opinions.
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"If you didn't write it down, it didn't happen."

This saying is popular among scientists (doing experiments), but I believe it applies to software testing, particularly for real-time systems.

--Larry Zana
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We reject kings, presidents, and voting.
We believe in rough consensus and running code.

--Dave Clark <http://www.multicians.org/multicians.html#ClarkDD> (1992)
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I am a design chauvinist. I believe that good design is magical and not to be lightly tinkered with. The difference between a great design and a lousy one is in the meshing of the thousand details that either fit or don't, and the spirit of the passionate intellect that has tied them together, or tried. That's why programming---or buying software---on the basis of "lists of features" is a doomed and misguided effort. The features can be thrown together, as in a garbage can, or carefully laid together and interwoven in elegant unification, as in APL, or the Forth language, or the game of chess.


-- Ted Nelson
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Software is Too Important to be Left to Programmers<http://www.waysys.com/ws_content_al_isd.html>,
by Meilir Page-Jones.
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"If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture."<http://www.laputan.org/mud/>

-- Brian Foote and Joseph Yoder
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Abraham Lincoln reportedly said that, given eight hours to chop down a tree, he'd spend six sharpening his axe.

-- TidBITS 654, quoted by Derek K. Miller, via Art Evans
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... while we all know that unmastered complexity is at the root of the misery, we do not know what degree of simplicity can be obtained, nor to what extent the intrinsic complexity of the whole design has to show up in the interfaces. We simply do not know yet the limits of disentanglement. We do not know yet whether intrinsic intricacy can be distinguished from accidental intricacy.

-- E. W. Dijkstra, Communications of the ACM, Mar 2001, Vol. 44, No. 3
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You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) " The Man who was Orthodox<http://www.giga-usa.com/gigaweb1/quotes2/quautchestertongilbertkx001.htm>
", via Paul Black

[Querida]

"Be very careful if you make a woman
cry, because God counts her tears. The woman
came out of a man's rib. Not from his feet to be
walked on. Not from his head to be superior, but
from the side to be equal. Under the arm to be
protected, and next to the heart to be loved."
-The Talmud

[NOV]

[tscii]Whenever I find the key to success, someone changes the lock.


The road to success…….. is always under construction.


Alcohol doesn't solve any problems, but if you think again, neither does Milk.


In order to get a Loan, you first need to prove that you don't need it.


All the desirable things in life are either illegal, expensive or fattening.


Since Light travels faster than Sound, people appear brighter before you hear them speak.


Everyone has a scheme of getting rich….. which never works.


If at first you don't succeed…. Destroy all evidence that you ever tried.


You can never determine which side of the bread to butter. If it falls down, it will always land on the buttered side.


Anything dropped on the floor will roll over to the most inaccessible corner.


As soon as you mention something…… if it is good, it is taken…. If it is bad, it happens.


If you come early, the bus is late. If you come late…… the bus is still late.


Once you have bought something, you will find the same item being sold somewhere else at a cheaper rate.


When in a queue, the other line always moves faster and the person in front of you will always have the most complex of transactions.


If you have paper, you don't have a pen……. If you have a pen, you don't have paper…… if you have both, no one calls.


You will pick up maximum wrong numbers when on roaming.


The door bell or your mobile will always ring when you are in the bathroom.


If your exam is tomorrow, there will be a power cut tonight.


The last person to be fired or quit is responsible for all the errors until another person is fired or quits.


Irrespective of the direction of the wind, the smoke from the cigarette will always tend to go to the non-smoker.

[podalangai]

A mediaeval Pali couplet:

niccam aniccam samana vadanti
ghatassa bhinne kalaham karonti

"Everything is impermanent", say the monks
But if a pot breaks, they still yell and shout