"The default movement on a software project should be in the direction of taking elements of the software away to make it simpler rather than adding elements to make it more complex."

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Source : Steve McConnell (1997). “Software Project Survival Guide”, p.48, Microsoft Press

Steve McConnell

#Simplicity Quotes #Elements Quotes #Movement Quotes

“I walk my dogs. I garden a little. I play a bit of tennis. Basically when I have spare time I'm making music.”
“I think art is about human existence. Almost by default I'm expressing my experiences as a human.”
“I think faith can be anything. It can be believing in yourself, or if you believe there's a higher being that's watching over you.”
“It's from love and knowledge of nature that any sensible understanding must come. Technology is essentially antagonistic to nature - that in fact is why it's created, to do something to or with nature that wasn't there before, that wasn't natural.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“Nobody can be forced to commit an act of villainy. You can't push anybody into the mud; people always step into it themselves.”

Source : Sergei Lukyanenko (2006). “Night Watch”, Miramax
“You don't trade in the devil you know for the one you don't know.”
“A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere utility”
“As long as there are Japanese tourists, there will be a market for the Old South.”

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