Capers Jones quotes

“There are thousands of ways to mess up or damage a software projects, and only a few ways to do them well”
-- Capers Jones

Source : Capers Jones (2008). “Applied Software Measurement: Global Analysis of Productivity and Quality”, p.292, McGraw Hill Professional

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“Perhaps the worst software technology of all time was the use of physical lines of code [for metrics]. Continued use of this approach, in the author's opinion, should be considered professional malpractice.”
-- Capers Jones

Source : Capers Jones (1997). “Applied Software Measurement: Assuring Productivity and Quality”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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“The use of lines of code metrics for productivity and quality studies [is] to be regarded as professional malpractice starting in 1995.”
-- Capers Jones

Source : Capers Jones (1994). “Assessment and Control of Software Risks”, Prentice Hall

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“High-quality software is not expensive. High-quality software is faster and cheaper to build and maintain than low-quality software, from initial development all the way through total cost of ownership.”
-- Capers Jones

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“Excessive or irrational schedules are probably the single most destructive influence in all of software”
-- Capers Jones

Source : Capers Jones (2008). “Applied Software Measurement: Global Analysis of Productivity and Quality”, p.403, McGraw Hill Professional

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“The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.”

“I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.”

“It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.”

“No amount of advertising can repair the damage done by failing to properly address a customer's concern.”

“I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions-those who wantonly damage it and those who do not. But the Earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.”

“...climate change is accelerating. It threatens our well being, our security, and our economic development. It will lead to uncontrollable risks and dramatic damage if we do not take resolute countermeasures.”

“Those watercolourists who work from light to dark know that the darks do the damage.”

“Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will.”

“I always listen to a lot of different music when I am working on a project.”

“I'm the guy who puts projects together.”