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“When program developers are not territorial about their code and encourage others to look for bugs and potential improvements, progress speeds up dramatically.”

Gerald M. Weinberg

M. B. Douthwaite (2002) Enabling Innovation: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Fostering Technological Change. p. 116

“A controller that cannot control itself is worse than no controller at all: If you cannot manage yourself, you have no business managing others.”

Gerald M. Weinberg

Source: Quality Software Management: Volume 2, First-order measurement, 1993, p. 9

“Asking for efficiency and adaptability in the same program is like asking for a beautiful and modest wife. Although beauty and modesty have been known to occur in the same woman, we'll probably have to settle for one or the other. At least that's better than neither.”

Gerald M. Weinberg

Source: The Psychology of Computer Programming, 1971, Chapter 2, page 22

“The general systems movement has taken up the task of helping scientists unravel complexity, technologists to master it, and others to learn to live with it.”

Gerald M. Weinberg

Source: Introduction to General Systems Thinking, 1975, p. 3; Quote in: Dieter Spath, Walter Ganz (2008) The Future of Services: Trends and Perspectives. p. 226

“Helping myself is even harder than helping others.”

Gerald M. Weinberg

Quoted in: Hiebert, Murray, Hiebert, Éilish (1999) Powerful Professionals : Getting Your Expertise Used Inside Your Organization. p. 216
Source: The secrets of consulting, 1985, p. 18

“Science is the study of those things that can be reduced to the study of other things.”

Gerald M. Weinberg

Source: Introduction to General Systems Thinking, 1975, p. 30; Quote in: Dieter Spath, Walter Ganz (2008) The Future of Services: Trends and Perspectives. p. 226

“If the software doesn't have to work, you can always meet any other requirement.”

Gerald M. Weinberg

Source: Quality Software Management: Volume 2, First-order measurement, 1993, p. 111

“Let’s hope that no system of theory of systems will ever eliminate the other systems – that no approach will be promoted to a dogma, and no group of scientists will become the high priests. Shouldn’t we rather let a hundred flowers bloom…?”

Gerald M. Weinberg

Weinberg (1976) cited in: Slawomir Sztaba (2010) "Economy and Sociology. The Likely Directions of Cooperation.". In: WFES. Vol 1, nr.1 2010. p. 218