The role of a trainer or consultant is to empower the customer, not to make himself indispensable

The role of a trainer or consultant is to empower the customer, not to make himself indispensable

Incorrect documentation is often worse than no documentation.

Writing a class without its contract would be similar to producing an engineering component (electrical circuit, VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) chip, bridge, engine...) without a spec. No professional engineer would even consider the idea.

Ask not first what the system does; ask what it does it to!

You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time.

I have always felt sympathy towards the biologists who accept to debate creationists. Now I also understand them better; one can fight opinions, not articles of faith.