Quotes About Behavior

Try to write tests that force exceptions, and then add behavior to your handler to satisfy your tests. This will cause you to build the transaction scope of the try block first and will help you maintain the transaction nature of that scope.

OCP: The Open-Closed Principle Bertrand Meyer made this principle famous in the 1980s. The gist is that for software systems to be easy to change, they must be designed to allow the behavior of those systems to be changed by adding new code, rather than changing existing code.

software has two types of value: the value of its behavior and the value of its structure.

The LSP makes clear that in OOD the ISA relationship pertains to behavior . Not intrinsic private behavior, but extrinsic public behavior; behavior that clients depend upon.

The most important thing a good architecture can do to support behavior is to clarify and expose that behavior so that the intent of the system is visible at the architectural level.

Every software system provides two different values to the stakeholders: behavior and structure. Software developers are responsible for ensuring that both those values remain high. Unfortunately, they often focus on one to the exclusion of the other.

The first value of software is its behavior. Programmers are hired to make machines behave in a way that makes or saves money for the stakeholders. We do this by helping the stakeholders develop a functional specification, or requirements document. Then we write the code that causes the stakeholder's machines to satisfy those requirements.

He was deficient in such qualities as patience, even temper, cooperativeness, and the capacity to subordinate oneself, in small ways and large, to the needs of an institution.

One of the ironies of cults is that the craziest groups are often composed of the most caring people.

Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

I made a fatuous remark about how badly people behave when they're frightened

this is so important to the human animal, people will do almost anything to get attention, including committing a crime or attempting suicide. Look behind almost any action, and you will see this need as a primary motivation.

In the work environment the stakes are suddenly raised. People are no longer struggling for good grades or social approval, but for survival. Under such pressure, they reveal qualities of their characters that they normally try to conceal. They manipulate, compete, and think of themselves first. We are blindsided by this behavior and our emotions are churned up even more than before, locking us into the Naïve Perspective.

what if we could look within and see the source of our more troubling emotions and why they drive our behavior, often against our own wishes?

The Laws of Human Nature, 1: Master Your Emotional Self—The Law of Irrationality

The world is ruled by necessity: People change their behavior only if they have to. They will feel urgency only if their lives depend on it.

Hence politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

It is often your own actions that stir up envy, your own unawareness. By becoming conscious of those actions and qualities that create envy, you can take the teeth out of it before it nibbles you to death.

we tend to think of our behavior as largely conscious and willed. To imagine that we are not always in control of what we do is a frightening thought, but in fact it is the reality. We are subject to forces from deep within us that drive our behavior and that operate below the level of our awareness.

Play the psychoanalyst: make cutting comments concerning their unconscious motives (you are only being truthful), then sit back and listen. Your silence will goad them into embarrassing admissions. Leaven your judgments with occasional praise and they will strive to please you, like dogs.

Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.

Aggression is a tendency that is latent in every single human individual.

Even while you know you are practicing a kind of deception on yourself, act like a king. You are likely to be treated as one.

Daily Law: Look for signs of your own aggressive impulses in past actions—how they led to friction or success.