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Gerald Weinberg
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“I believe, however, that humans are the only animals that we know who invents tools for working together - and they have done that as long as we have considered them human.”
Gerald Weinberg (1933–2018) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gerald M. Weinberg (1992) cited in: Hannes P. Lubich (1995) Towards a CSCW Framework for Scientific Cooperation in Europe. p. 7
“When program developers are not territorial about their code and encourage others to look for bugs and potential improvements, progress speeds up dramatically.”
Gerald Weinberg (1933–2018) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: M. B. Douthwaite (2002) Enabling Innovation: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Fostering Technological Change. p. 116
“We were doing incremental development as early as 1957, in Los Angeles, under the direction of Bernie Dimsdale [at IBM's ServiceBureau Corporation]. He was a colleague of John von Neumann, so perhaps he learned it there, or assumed it as totally natural. I do remember Herb Jacobs (primarily, though we all participated) developing a large simulation for Motorola, where the technique used was, as far as I can tell, indistinguishable from XP.”
Gerald Weinberg (1933–2018) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gerald M. Weinberg, as quoted in Craig Larman (2004) Agile & Iterative Development: A Manager's Guide. Addison-Wesley Professional, 2004
“A system is never finished being developed until it ceases to be used.”
Gerald Weinberg (1933–2018) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Attributed to Gerald M. Weinberg in: Hannes P. Lubich (1995) Towards a CSCW Framework for Scientific Cooperation in Europe. p. 7
“Let’s hope that no system of theory of systems will ever eliminate the other systems – that no approach will be promoted to a dogma, and no group of scientists will become the high priests. Shouldn’t we rather let a hundred flowers bloom...?”
Gerald Weinberg (1933–2018) first seen 1976 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Weinberg (1976) cited in: Slawomir Sztaba (2010) "Economy and Sociology. The Likely Directions of Cooperation.". In: WFES. Vol 1, nr.1 2010. p. 218
“If builders built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.”
Gerald Weinberg (1933–2018) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Weinberg attributed with the quote in: Murali Chemuturi (2010) Mastering Software Quality Assurance: Best Practices, Tools and Technique for Software Developers. p. ix
“Asking for efficiency and adaptability in the same program is like asking for a beautiful and modest wife. Although beauty and modesty have been known to occur in the same woman, we'll probably have to settle for one or the other. At least that's better than neither.”
Gerald Weinberg (1933–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have come through a strange cycle in programming, starting with the creation of programming itself as a human activity. Executives with the tiniest smattering of knowledge assume that anyone can write a program, and only now are programmers beginning to win their battle for recognition as true professionals.”
Gerald Weinberg (1933–2018) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cited in: Michael Jay Quinn (2006) Ethics for the information age. p. 415
“The general systems movement has taken up the task of helping scientists unravel complexity, technologists to master it, and others to learn to live with it.”
Gerald Weinberg (1933–2018) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 3; Quote in: Dieter Spath, Walter Ganz (2008) The Future of Services: Trends and Perspectives. p. 226
“Newton was a genius, but not because of the superior computational power of his brain. Newton's genius was, on the contrary, his ability to simplify, idealize, and streamline the world so that it became, in some measure, tractable to the brains of perfectly ordinary men.”
Gerald Weinberg (1933–2018) first seen 1978 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 12; Cited in: Nawaz Sharif, Pakorn Adulbhan (1978) Systems models for decision making. p. 38
“Science is the study of those things that can be reduced to the study of other things.”
Gerald Weinberg (1933–2018) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 30; Quote in: Dieter Spath, Walter Ganz (2008) The Future of Services: Trends and Perspectives. p. 226
“The generalist, is like the fox, who knows many things. Just as anthropologists learn to live in many cultures, without rifles, so do certain scientists manage to adapt comfortably to the paradigms of several disciplines. How do they do it? When questioned, these generalists always express an inner faith in the unity of science. They, too, carry a single paradigm, but it is one taken from a much higher vantage point, one from which the paradigms of the different disciplines are seen to be very much alike, though often obscured by special language.”
Gerald Weinberg (1933–2018) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 34; Quote in: Franz Pichler, Roberto Moreno Diaz (1993. Computer Aided Systems Theory. p. 134
“As any poet knows, a system is a way of looking at the world.”
Gerald Weinberg (1933–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Helping myself is even harder than helping others.”
Gerald Weinberg (1933–2018) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in: Hiebert, Murray, Hiebert, Éilish (1999) Powerful Professionals : Getting Your Expertise Used Inside Your Organization. p. 216
“The principle is simple and powerful enough to be Marvin's Fourth Great Secret: If what they've been doing hasn't solved the problem, tell them to do something else.”
Gerald Weinberg (1933–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Second Law of Consulting: No matter how it looks at first, it's always a people problem.”
Gerald Weinberg (1933–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Third Law of Consulting: Never forget they're paying you by the hour, not by the solution.”
Gerald Weinberg (1933–2018) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Citation in: Lowell Jay Arthur (1992) Rapid evolutionary development: requirements, prototyping & software creation. p. 9
“Things are the way they are because they got that way”
Gerald Weinberg (1933–2018) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote in: Rex Black (2004) Critical Testing Processes: Plan, Prepare, Perform, Perfect. p. 12
“Quality is value to some person”
Gerald Weinberg (1933–2018) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 7, also in Weinberg (1993, 108); quoted in Matthew Heusser, Govind Kulkarni (2011) How to Reduce the Cost of Software Testing. p. 95
“A controller that cannot control itself is worse than no controller at all: If you cannot manage yourself, you have no business managing others.”
Gerald Weinberg (1933–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If the software doesn't have to work, you can always meet any other requirement.”
Gerald Weinberg (1933–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The power of the Ten Commandments is magnified if you remember the Helpful Model: No matter how it looks, everyone is trying to be helpful.”
Gerald Weinberg (1933–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source