“Quality is essentially about meeting user expectations. Consistently. Reliably. Confidently.”
“Do it fast and fix it later. Or do it slow and you don’t have to fix it at all. ”
“Done means done. End of story.”
“If there is one company that got this guideline right, it’s Apple. Microsoft and Android and Google and most companies out there focus on more. More features. More options. More users. Apple, in contrast, focuses on how little they can do.”
“Pre-written code only becomes an asset when you can re-use it. You can only re-use it if you can find it and understand what it is intended to do.”
“If you see something wrong, do something about it. If you can fix it, do it. Immediately. If you can’t, tell someone who can.”
“The square_root() function shall return the square root of its input for all valid values.” – in a better specification would be: – “The square_root() function shall return the square root of its input for all valid values, and 0 for all invalid values. Valid inputs are positive 32-bit floating point numbers, zero and positive infinity. Invalid inputs are negative numbers, negative infinity, and NaN.”
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