Grady Booch Quotes

#1. I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

Marshall McLuhan

#2. The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.

Grady Booch

#3. Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit
in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever.

Chinua Achebe

#4. In 2031, lawyers will be commonly a part of most development teams.

Grady Booch

#5. UML is not dessert topping and floor wax.

Grady Booch

#6. All of life is iterative. It goes back to the point I made earlier, which is you can't a priori know enough to even ask the right questions.

Grady Booch

#7. Multiple Inheritance is like a parachute. You don't often need it, but when you do, you really need it.

Grady Booch

#8. The amateur software engineer is always in search of magic.

Grady Booch

#9. When less than four years old I was standing with my nurse, Mary Ward, watching the shadows on the wall from branches of an elm behind which the moon had risen. I have never forgot those shadows and am often trying to paint them.

Samuel Palmer

#10. C++ also supports the notion of friends: cooperative classes that are permitted to see each other's private parts.

Grady Booch

#11. The task of the software development team is to engineer the illusion of simplicity.

Grady Booch

#12. Ah, but who do you think created the chaos?

Grady Booch

#13. Hierarchy is a kind of order of abstractions.

Grady Booch

#14. The Winter Shifter army rushed toward their opponents at full speed. A unified roar thundered over the field.

A.O. Peart

#15. I'm not a goddess, for crying out loud. I'm a regular person who took feminism - which I have a deep connection to - and mixed it with music, which I really love to do.

Kathleen Hanna

#16. The contemporary notion that it's somehow inherently bad for a film to be 'talky' has done grave damage to the culture of American movie-making, enough so that a growing number of people, myself among them, have all but given up on Hollywood.

Terry Teachout