David Parnas Quotes

#1. Many spend their time berating practitioners for not applying their method. We all need to disseminate our ideas, but most of our time should be spent applying and improving our methods, not selling them. The best way to sell a mouse trap is to display some trapped mice.

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#2. Find the simplest model that is not a lie is the key to better software design.

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#3. One bad programmer can easily create two new jobs a year.

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#4. I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of people are interested in artificial limbs: they are missing one.

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#5. Complexity is not a goal. I don't want to be remembered as an engineer of complex systems.

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#6. We must not forget that the wheel is reinvented so often because it is a very good idea; I've learned to worry more about the soundness of ideas that were invented only once.

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#7. Requirements in mathematical language are no use unless they are easier to read than the code.

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#8. Artificial intelligence has the same relation to intelligence as artificial flowers have to flowers.

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