“Do
unto others as you would have them do unto you.” -- Golden Rule
“If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the
computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.” -- Robert X. Cringely
“I have not lost my mind
- it's backed up on disk somewhere.” -- Unknown
“Computer Science is no
more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.” –- E.W. Dijkstra
“To err is human. To
understand the reasons why humans err is science.” -- Erik Hollnagel,
“I know that you believe
that you understand what you think I said but I am not sure you realize that
what you heard is not what I meant.” -- Unknown
“Time is like money, the less we have of it to
spare the further we make it go.” -- Josh Billings
“It's not the hours you
put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.” -- Sam Ewing
“I
have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and
kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.” -- Kahlil Gibran
A Dictionary of
Useful Research Phrases
Quips
of Software Engineering and Methodologies