"Extra features were once considered desirable. We now recognize that 'free' features are rarely free. Any increase in generality that does not contribute to reliability, modularity, maintainability, and robustness should be suspected."

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Source : Boris Beizer (1990). “Software Testing Techniques”, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company

Boris Beizer

#Doe Quotes #Reliability Quotes #Increase Quotes

“If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college.”
“The more you look into and understand yourself, the less judgmental you become towards others.”
“A good woman is the loveliest flower that blooms under heaven; and we look with love and wonder upon its silent grace, its pure fragrance, its delicate bloom of beauty.”
“Your first obligation, I suppose, is to your God. Your second is to your family. And your third is to your community. And you ought to try to fulfill all of those in your life.”
“I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wished are concerned”
“You know, Iâ€™m not a PGA of America guy.”
“In the midst of a culture that is rationally organized for a vocational workaday life, there is hardly any room for the cultivation of acosmic brotherliness, unless it is among strata who are economically carefree. Under the technical and social conditions of rational culture, an imitation of the life of Buddha, Jesus, or Francis seems condemned to failure for purely external reasons.”
“They become liberated spaces that can be occupied. A rich indetermination gives them, by means of a semantic rarefaction, the function of articulating a second, poetic geography on top of the geography of the literal, forbidden or permitted meaning. They insinuate other routes into the functionalist and historical order of movement. Walking follows them: 'I fill this great empty space with a beautiful name.'”

Source : Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.105, Univ of California Press

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