Larry Constantine quotes

“Hiring people to write code to sell is not the same as hiring people to design and build durable, usable, dependable software.”
-- Larry Constantine

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“In fast moving markets, adaptation is significantly more important than optimization.”
-- Larry Constantine

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“If we play genie and grant client wishes, we are apt to construct castles of code in the air.”
-- Larry Constantine

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“The best meetings get real work done. When your people learn that your meetings actually accomplish something, they will stop making excuses to be elsewhere.”
-- Larry Constantine

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“A dynamic duo who work well together can be worth any three people working in isolation.”
-- Larry Constantine

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“We offer them mediocrity while calling it magic. We offer them the illusion of intelligent software, seducing them into surrendering the task of thinking to the machine. Of course, the machine isn't thinking, which means that nobody is.”
-- Larry Constantine

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“If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.”

“The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.”

“God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.”

“Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.”

“People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.”

“Further, the same Arguments which explode the Notion of Luck, may, on the other side, be useful in some Cases to establish a due comparison between Chance and Design: We may imagine Chance and Design to be, as it were, in Competition with each other, for the production of some sorts of Events, and many calculate what Probability there is, that those Events should be rather be owing to the one than to the other.”

Source : "The Doctrine of Chances: Or, A Method of Calculating the Probabilities of Events in Play".

“As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it.”

“Flow systems have two basic features (properties). There is the current that is flowing (for example, fluid, heat, mass, or information) and the design through which it flows.”

Source : Adrian Bejan, J. Peder Zane (2012). “Design in Nature: How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organization”, p.9, Anchor

“Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.”

“If you remember the shape of your spoon at lunch, it has to be the wrong shape. The spoon and the letter are tools; one to take food from the bowl, the other to take information off the page... When it is a good design, the reader has to feel comfortable because the letter is both banal and beautiful.”

Source : "Design for knife: can cutlery help people with disabilities?" by Justin McGuirk, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2012.