Top 20 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.
David Parnas
#2. Things are sullen, and will be as they are, whatever we think them or wish them to be.
Ralph Cudworth
#3. I'm not sure anyone goes through a cancer scare unchanged. I know it changed me in so many ways. But I was fortunate to have had a rare cancer that's slow-growing and one that allowed me to skip the chemical cocktails that would have put me into early menopause.
Susan McBride
#4. The bottom line is that it's better to run a workforce on security than insecurity.
Jared Bernstein
#5. Remember that life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away!
Vicki Corona
#6. Do not let your emotions rule you," she would say. "Rule them. Emotions are a fuel for action, not the cause of them.
Kevin L. Nielsen
#7. Find the simplest model that is not a lie is the key to better software design.
David Parnas
#8. I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - people assume you're writing about cats and romances where somebody has died.
Karin Slaughter
#9. One bad programmer can easily create two new jobs a year.
David Parnas
#10. 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.
David Parnas
#11. I trained as an artist originally, so I know what a nice human body looks like, and I would like to look like that notion, and of course I never will. But I've got past that.
Richard Griffiths
#12. Complexity is not a goal. I don't want to be remembered as an engineer of complex systems.
David Parnas
#13. 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.
David Parnas
#14. I have been writing songs and poems since I was a little girl. I started writing short scripts, which evolved into the idea for a book.
Hilary Duff
#15. People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day nobody's perfect.
Colum McCann
#16. Requirements in mathematical language are no use unless they are easier to read than the code.
David Parnas
#17. She smiled and it was the kind of smile you give to someone who can make you want to throttle them and kiss them all at the same time.
Cassandra Clare
#18. Tell the story as if it were only of interest to the small circle of your characters, of which you may be one. There is no other way to put life into the story.
Horacio Quiroga
#19. Artificial intelligence has the same relation to intelligence as artificial flowers have to flowers.
David Parnas
#20. Ty did his best to keep his eyes open, watching as he disappeared between Zane's lips. He wanted nothing more than to come down Zane's throat. It was barely a matter of minutes with the visual stimulation, and Ty was soon gasping and tugging at Zane's hair in warning. Zane
Abigail Roux
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