"The use of lines of code metrics for productivity and quality studies [is] to be regarded as professional malpractice starting in 1995."

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Source : Capers Jones (1994). “Assessment and Control of Software Risks”, Prentice Hall

Capers Jones

#Quality Quotes #Use Quotes #Lines Quotes

“I suppose it’s true that most great television, literature, and other forms of high art (and basic cable) benefit from a little hindsight. “M.A.S.H.” comes to mind. So does The Iliad.”

Source : "Don’t Watch" by Kevin Bleyer, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 27, 2005.
“The organization cannot trust the individual; the individual must trust the organization.”
“If I don't know what's coming - that is, if I have no hard-and-fast image, as I have with a photographic original - then arbitrary choice and chance play an important part.”
“You must do everything you can to make your appearance pleasing, but the minute you walk out the door, forget yourself and start concentrating on others.”
“Well, it's always nice to know the fans didn't forget what you did when you played in the NHL.”
“All mass movements avail themselves of action as a means of unification. The conflicts a mass movement seeks and incites serve not only to down its enemies but also to strip its followers of their distinct individuality and render them more soluble in the collective medium.”
“That humankind has fallen into the insanity of concensus trance, and lost touch with our true possibilities and functions is a tragedy.”
“When does a session of The Theatre of the Oppressed end? Never â€“ since the objective is not to close a cycle, to generate a catharsis, or to end a development. On the contrary, its objective is to encourage autonomous activity, to set a process in motion, to stimulate transformative creativity, to change spectators into protagonists. And it is precisely for these reasons that the Theatre of the Oppressed should be the initiator of changes the culmination of which is not the aesthetic phenomenon but real life.”

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