Raymond Simard quotes

“Fortunately, the second-to-last bug has just been fixed.”
-- Raymond Simard

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“GOTO, n.: A programming tool that exists to allow structured programmers to complain about unstructured programmers.”
-- Raymond Simard

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“A programming language that is sort of like Pascal except more like assembly except that it isn't very much like either one, or anything else. It is either the best language available to the art today, or it isn't.”
-- Raymond Simard

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“A unit of documentation. There are always three or more on a given item. One is on the shelf; someone has the others. The information you need is in the others.”
-- Raymond Simard

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“It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.”

“I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say. You always want to watch behavior, because the dialogue as written by our illustrious leaders is great. Eminently playable.”

“Yeah, I think speculation keeps things really interesting.”

“I'm not looking to freak people out - eating rodents or bugs. I don't do that anymore.”

“A good threat is worth a thousand tests.”

Source : Boris Beizer (1990). “Software Testing Techniques”, Van Nostrand Reinhold Company

“If you can't test it, don't build it. If you don't test it, rip it out.”

“The last day of your life is still going to be a day.”

Source : Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2012.

“As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.”

“Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.”

Source : Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

“I’m doing pretty well. If you don’t get married, you can’t get divorced. Why couldn’t we learn from the devastatingly low percentage of successful marriages that our last generation went through?”