Part 1
Get Ready . . . Get Set . . .
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy . . . if both are frozen!
—Edward V. Berard
On two occasions I have been asked, “Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?” I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
—Charles Babbage
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.
—Bjarne Stroustrup
Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer.
—Fred Brooks ...
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