Giustino Borzacchiello

Category: Quotes

  • A quote by Donald Knuth

    I think you get more prestige by doing good Science, than by doing popular Science. Source

  • Bob Martin’s Three Laws of TDD

    Bob Martin describes Test-Driven Development using these three simple rules: Do not write production code unless it is to make a failing unit test pass. Do not write more of a unit test than is sufficient to fail, and build failures are failures. Do not write more production code than is sufficient to pass the […]

  • A quote from Brian W. Kernighan and P. J. Plauger

    Readability is the best single criterion of program quality. If a program is easy to read, it is probably a good program; if it is hard to read, it probably isn’t good.

  • A quote from M.A. Jackson

    The beginning of wisdom for a software engineer is to recognize the difference between getting a program to work, and getting it right.

  • Ludwig Erhard sul Compromesso

    Trovare un compromesso è l’arte di dividere una torta in modo che tutti ritengano di aver avuto il pezzo più grande

  • Joel Spolsky on hiring

    Two of the biggest challenges in technical hiring are identifying people who are smart but don’t get things done and people who get things done but aren’t smart. A company in a competitive industry needs to avoid hiring both classes of people. “People who are smart but don’t get things done often have PhDs and […]

  • Albert Einstein on reading

    Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

  • Douglas Crockford on features

    We see a lot of feature-driven product design in which the cost of features is not properly accounted. Features can have a negative value to consumers because they make the products more difficult to understand and use. We are finding that people like products that just work. It turns out that designs that just work […]

  • Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas

    Don’t use manual procedures

  • Quote from Banco del Mutuo Soccorso

    Benvenuta sia la mia ragione quando si toglie dalla mia strada