Edward Yourdon quotes

“If you think your management doesn't know what it's doing or that your organisation turns out low-quality software crap that embarrasses you, then leave.”
-- Edward Yourdon

Source : Edward Yourdon (1998). “Rise & Resurrection of the American Programmer”, Yourdon

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“There is nothing in the programming field more despicable than an undocumented program”
-- Edward Yourdon

Source : Edward Yourdon (1975). “Techniques of program structure and design”, Prentice Hall

#Fields Quotes #Program Quotes #Programming Quotes

“Unless you are very rich and very eccentric, you will not enjoy the luxury of a computer in your own home.”
-- Edward Yourdon

Source : Edward Yourdon (1975). “Techniques of program structure and design”, Prentice Hall

#Home Quotes #Luxury Quotes #Eccentric Quotes

“Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.”

“Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.”

“My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.”

“The quality of your thinking determines the quality of your life.”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 06, 2016

“Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.”

Source : Ada Leverson (1962). “The little Ottleys: Love's shadow. Tenterhooks. Love at second sight”

“Wiles and deceit are female qualities.”

“Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.”

“To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.”

“A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.”

Source : "The future of labor-management cooperative programs" by John Raymond Phillips, (p. 6), 1994.

“Maybe we should teach schoolchildren probability theory and investment risk management.”