The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed
William Gibson
Just to be clear. this is MARVIN the Martian - no relation to Garvin the Magician or any other Garvin business entity
Thomas G the Non-Martian
Pure Fiction - Trust Me! As a child I built rockets
Thomas G - aka Mister Normal Science Guy
Educated Incapacity - I also often use the phrase to describe the limitations of the expert--or even of just the "well educated." The more expert--or at least the more educated--a person is, the less likely that person is to see a solution when it is not within the framework in which he or she was t
Herman kahn
Too many KPIs only add confusion. The key is "Key" Your dashboard needs only a little "dash" for Performance Indicators
Garvin 5.0
The greatest victory is that which requires no code
Sun Tzu (approximately)
Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling—the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration.
Niklaus Wirth
Vibe Coders are like eunuchs in a harem; the know how it's done; they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.
Brendan Behan, originally speaking on "critics"
Career growth is not always a straight line upward. Architecture becomes applied practice of (1) translating business constraints into technical decisions; (2) making tradeoffs explicit (and survivable); (3) prioritizing what makes systems adoptable, operable, and reusable - not just "buildable"
Martin Schuchman
Every scene should be able to answer three questions: 'Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get is? Why now?'
David Mamet thinks about "dashboard design" (allegedly)
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work.
John Gall
The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build the most important function that software builders do for their clients is the iterative extraction and refinement of the product requirements..,
Fred Brooks (1)
,,,For the truth is, the clients do not know what they want. They usually do not know what questions must be answered, and they have almost never thought of the problem in the detail that must be specified....
Fred Brooks (2)
The hardest part of the software task is arriving at a complete and consistent specification, and much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification.
Fred Brooks (3)
A good writer gets better only by learning to cut, to remove the ornamental, the descriptive, the narrative, and especially the deeply felt and meaningful. What remains? The story remains.
David Mamet, World Famous Dashboard Designer (allegedly)
If you are looking for ransom I can tell you I don't have money, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career.
Dialog by Liam Neeson in the movie Taken
Science is built up on facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.
Henri Poincare