“The natural law of good communications takes the following, quite different, form in SA:
Everything worth saying
about anything worth saying something about
must be expressed in six or fewer pieces.”

—  Douglas T. Ross

Source: Structured analysis (SA): A language for communicating ideas (1977), p. 18; Statement cited in: Peter Freeman, ‎Anthony I. Wasserman (1983), Tutorial on software design techniques. p. 98.

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "The natural law of good communications takes the following, quite different, form in SA: Everything worth saying abou…" by Douglas T. Ross?
Douglas T. Ross photo
Douglas T. Ross27
American computer scientist 1929–2007

Related quotes

“Always there is something worth saying
about glory, about gratitude.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

Source: What Do We Know

Tracy Chevalier photo

“Say something worth the words.”

Tracy Chevalier (1962) American writer

Paulo Coelho photo

“Infatuation was a good thing. It gave spice to life, and added to its enjoyment… But it was different from love. Love was worth everything, and couldn't be exchanged for anything.”

Paulo Coelho book The Valkyries

Source: The Valkyries

Socrates photo

“It is a good thing for a man to offer himself cheerfully to the attacks of the comic writers; for then, if they say anything worth hearing, one will be able to mend; and if they do not, then all they say is unimportant.”

Socrates (-470–-399 BC) classical Greek Athenian philosopher

Diogenes Laertius

Oscar Wilde photo

“Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

John Irving photo

“Good habits are worth being fanatical about.”

John Irving (1942) American novelist and screenwriter

“There's a tremendous tendency not to make a statement, not to be committed in that ultimate sense. Photo-realism is the same thing as minimal abstraction. Both are unwilling to say anything about the nature of reality, about their own involvement with reality, the evolvement of forms, their expressive…their deepest involvement with human reality.”

Leonard Baskin (1922–2000) American sculptor

Leonard Baskin Interview (1996) Discussing the State of Contemporary Art. in: Don Gray " Art Essays, Art Criticism & Poems http://jessieevans-dongrayart.com/essays/essay028.html" at jessieevans-dongrayart.com

Trinny Woodall photo

“As for the people who say tackling problems through clothes is superficial, I think they say that because they have their own issues about self worth.”

Trinny Woodall (1964) English fashion advisor and designer, television presenter and author

As quoted in "MEN reader meets Trinny and Susannah" by Helen Tither in Manchester Evening News (9 October 2006)

Robin S. Sharma photo

“If your life is worth thinking about, it is worth writing about.”

Robin S. Sharma (1965) Canadian self help writer

“Every 3 feet of lead is worth about one-tenth of a second, and a rolling start is worth a good half second. Indeed, the difference between the runner having his weight mainly on his front foot and mainly on his back foot (but don't let the pitcher catch you leaning!) must be worth more than one-tenth of a second.”

Robert Adair (physicist) (1924) Physicist and author

Source: The Physics Of Baseball (Second Edition - Revised), Chapter 4, Running, Fielding, And Throwing, p. 57

Related topics