Archive for March, 2006
“If you think your management doesn’t know what it’s doing or that your organization turns out low-quality software crap that embarrasses you, then leave.”
“The only thing more frightening than a programmer with a screwdriver or a hardware engineer with a program is a user with a pair of wire cutters and the root password.”
“Cringley’s Second Law: Ease of use with equivalent performance varies with the square root of the cost of development. That means that to design a computer that’s ten times easier to use would cost 100 times as much.”
“Team development is like a birthday cake. Everybody gets a piece.”
“Bugs lurk in corners and congregate at boundaries.”
“Agile methods derive much of their agility by relying on the tacit knowledge embodied in the team, rather than writing the knowledge down in plans.”
“Treating your rocket scientist employees as if they were still in kindergarten is not an isolated phenomenon. Almost every company has some kind of incentive program that is insulting and demeaning.”
“Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups.”
“All good work is done in defiance of management.”
“Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than we possess ourselves.”