"Building software implies various stages of planning, preparation and execution that vary in kind and degree depending on what's being built. [...] Building a four-foot tower requires a steady hand, a level surface, and 10 undamaged beer cans. Building a tower 100 times that size doesn't merely require 100 times as many beer cans."

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Source : Steve McConnell (2004). “Code Complete”, p.16, Pearson Education

Steve McConnell

#Beer Quotes #Hands Quotes #Feet Quotes

“When I came into boxing, when it was more out of control, no fighters got an opportunity to fight. I came in: everybody got an opportunity to make a living in America.”
“While there may be no "right" way to value a forest or a river, there is a wrong way, which is to give it no value at all. How do we decide the value of a 700-year-old tree? We need only to ask how much it would cost to make a new one, or a new river, or even a new atmosphere.”
“But I like all the books. You've got to read them all to get the complete Harry Potter experience.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“At the end of the day, you release music because you believe in the songs and believe that they're honest. That's all you can really hope for.”
“When you open your mouth to speak, you reveal a great deal. The words you use and the way you speak are like a blueprint of who you are deep inside....”
“Your place in Heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it.”
“Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.”
“The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.”

Source : Clinton, William J. (1996). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1594, Best Books on

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