Gerald M. Weinberg: Programming

Gerald M. Weinberg was American computer scientist. Explore interesting quotes on programming.
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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

Speed

“If builders built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.”

Gerald M. Weinberg

Weinberg attributed with the quote in: Murali Chemuturi (2010) Mastering Software Quality Assurance: Best Practices, Tools and Technique for Software Developers. p. ix

Way , Housing

“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

Beauty

“We have come through a strange cycle in programming, starting with the creation of programming itself as a human activity. Executives with the tiniest smattering of knowledge assume that anyone can write a program, and only now are programmers beginning to win their battle for recognition as true professionals.”

Gerald M. Weinberg

Cited in: Michael Jay Quinn (2006) Ethics for the information age. p. 415
The Psychology of Computer Programming, 1971

Knowledge