"Software engineering is the establishment and use of sound engineering principles to obtain economically software that is reliable and works on real machines efficiently."

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Source : "Software Engineering" by Friedrich L. Bauer in "Information Processing: Proceedings of the IFIP Congress, 1971" (p. 71), 1972.

Friedrich L. Bauer

#Real Quotes #Engineering Quotes #Sound Quotes

“I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order to extract meaning from it, to bring meaning to it.”
“If one is constantly challenged, one grows. If one becomes complacent, one stultifies.”
“I speak for a lot of church groups, youth groups, schools, colleges and do personal appearances. I've done conventions and trade shows. A lot of different little hats.”
“Don't let the same dog bite you twice.”

Source : Chuck Berry (1987). “Chuck Berry: The Autobiography”, Random House Value Publishing
“In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force”
“Those of us who had a perfectly happy childhood should be able to sue for deprivation of literary royalties.”
“They say I couldn't play football, I was too small. They say I couldn't play basketball, I wasn't tall. They say I couldn't play baseball at all and now everyday of my life, I ball.”
“Much of the work of every life is done in the dark.”

Source : Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, Julia Ward Howe, Maud Howe Elliott, Florence Marion Howe Hall (1970). “Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910”

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