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Booch on Software July 30th, 2004
McConnell on Diet vs Development July 24th, 2004
Software Engineering Principles May 13th, 2004
Kreitzberg and Shneiderman on Programming vs Cryptography March 23rd, 2004
Mills on Bugs February 10th, 2004
Fairley on Tragedy of Software Eng January 7th, 2004

Booch on Software

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McConnell on Diet vs Development

If you want to lose weight, don’t buy a new scale; change your diet. If you want to improve your software, don’t test more; develop better.
–Steve McConnell

Software Engineering Principles

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Kreitzberg and Shneiderman on Programming vs Cryptography

Programming can be fun, so can cryptography; however, they should not be combined.
–Kreitzberg and Shneiderman

Mills on Bugs

Programs do not acquire bugs as people acquire germs, by hanging around other buggy programs. Programmers must insert them.
–Harlan Mills

Fairley on Tragedy of Software Eng

The tragedy of software engineering is not that we don’t know how to plan and conduct software projects, but that we know how and just don’t do it.
–Richard E. Fairley

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