Grady Booch quotes
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“The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.”
-- Grady BoochSource : "Qt for Symbian". Book by Frank H. P. Fitzek et al., 2010.
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“The amateur software engineer is always in search of magic.”
-- Grady BoochSource : Grady Booch, Robert Maksimchuk, Michael Engle, Jim Conallen, Kelli Houston (2007). “Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications”, p.339, Pearson Education
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“Ah, but who do you think created the chaos?”
-- Grady BoochSource : Grady Booch, Robert Maksimchuk, Michael Engle, Jim Conallen, Kelli Houston (2007). “Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications”, p.31, Pearson Education
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“UML is not dessert topping and floor wax.”
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“C++ also supports the notion of friends: cooperative classes that are permitted to see each other's private parts.”
-- Grady BoochSource : Grady Booch (1991). “Object Oriented Design: With Applications”, Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Company
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“The task of the software development team is to engineer the illusion of simplicity.”
-- Grady BoochSource : Grady Booch, Robert Maksimchuk, Michael Engle, Jim Conallen, Kelli Houston (2007). “Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications”, p.40, Pearson Education
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“In 2031, lawyers will be commonly a part of most development teams.”
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“All of life is iterative. It goes back to the point I made earlier, which is you can't a priori know enough to even ask the right questions.”
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“Multiple Inheritance is like a parachute. You don't often need it, but when you do, you really need it.”
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“Hierarchy is a kind of order of abstractions.”
-- Grady Booch
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