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Sad news indeed. One of my favorite Weinberg quotes (phrased as a law): > Weinberg's Second Law: If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs
by smarks 8y ago
Sad news indeed. One of my favorite Weinberg quotes (phrased as a law):
> Weinberg's Second Law: If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
Weinberg’s books are filled with named “laws”, so many that some of his books have an appendix that lists them all. Here’s one of my favorites:
> Boulding’s Backward Basis: Things are the way they are because they got that way.
[Quality Software Management, Vol. 1: Systems Thinking]