"Computer system analysis is like child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success."

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Source : Tom DeMarco (1978). “Structured analysis and system specification”, Yourdon Press

Tom DeMarco

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“I find it difficult to be in rooms now for long periods of time. I can usually take it for about an hour. Then I stride out.”
“Books entered my house under cover of night, from the four winds, smuggled in by woodland creatures, and then they never left. Books collected on every surface; I believe that somehow they managed to breed”
“I really kind of set the bar really low, so I don't get disappointed.”

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“I think people would be most surprised to know that I love scary movies.”

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“Also, we're all actually different blood types and we have one represented by each guy in the band.”
“The great interests of an agricultural, commercial, and manufacturing nation are so linked in union together that no permanent cause of prosperity to one of them can operate without extending its influence to the others. All these interests are alike under the protecting power of the legislative authority, and the duties of the representative bodies are to conciliate them in harmony together.”
“These words reveal the childâ€™s inner needs; â€˜Help me to do it aloneâ€™.”
“I am a Californian, and we have twice the individuality and originality of any people in the United States. We always get quite huffy when we are spoken of as merely Americans.”

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