Statechart talk

You can only finish it when there is unlimited time, and unlimited budget.

Harry Weinberg

If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization

Harry Weinberger

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.

Edsger W. Dijkstra

The good thing about bubbles and arrows, as opposed to programs, is that they never crash.

Bertrand Meyer

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add but when there is nothing left to take away. Antoine de Saint Exupery

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction. Albert Einstein

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

Michael Moncur

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

Doug Horton