Find the simplest model that is not a lie is the key to better software design. - David Parnas

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I like people with depth, I like people with emotion, I like people with a strong mind, an interesting mind, a twisted mind, and also someone that can make me smile.

David Parnas

Find the simplest model that is not a lie is the key to better software design.

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When someone builds a bridge, he uses engineers who have been certified as knowing what they are doing. Yet when someone builds you a software program, he has no similar certification, even though your safety may be just as dependent upon that software working as it is upon the bridge supporting your weight.

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As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.

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Artificial intelligence has the same relation to intelligence as artificial flowers have to flowers.

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