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A controller that cannot control itself is worse than no controller at all: If you cannot manage yourself, you have no business managing others.

— Gerald Weinberg

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As any poet knows, a system is a way of looking at the world.

If the software doesn't have to work, you can always meet any other requirement.

Science is the study of those things that can be reduced to the study of other things.

If builders built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.

Weinberg attributed with the quote in: Murali Chemuturi (2010)

The power of the Ten Commandments is magnified if you remember the Helpful Model: No matter how it looks, everyone is trying to be helpful.

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