Edward Yourdon quotes
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“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 YourdonSource : 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 YourdonSource : Edward Yourdon (1975). “Techniques of program structure and design”, Prentice Hall
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“Unless you are very rich and very eccentric, you will not enjoy the luxury of a computer in your own home.”
-- Edward YourdonSource : Edward Yourdon (1975). “Techniques of program structure and design”, Prentice Hall
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“The quality of your thinking determines the quality of your life.”
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“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”
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“Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.”
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“To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.”
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“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.
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“Maybe we should teach schoolchildren probability theory and investment risk management.”
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