Quotes About Project

It is not enough for code to work. Code that works is often badly broken. Programmers who satisfy themselves with merely working code are behaving unprofessionally. They may fear that they don't have time to improve the structure and design of their code, but I disagree. Nothing has a more profound and long-term degrading effect upon a development project than bad code.

Architecture is the decisions that you wish you could get right early in a project, but that you are not necessarily more likely to get them right than any other. —Ralph Johnson

The majority of the cost of a software project is in long-term maintenance.

This is the world of the software development team. It's a world in which dates are frozen and requirements are continuously changing. And somehow in that context, the development team must drive the project to a good outcome.

Indeed, most of us realize that the requirements are the most volatile elements in the project.

Nothing has a more profound and long-term degrading effect upon a development project than bad code. Bad schedules can be redone, bad requirements can be redefined. Bad team dynamics can be repaired. But bad code rots and ferments, becoming an inexorable weight that drags the team down.

This physics constrains all projects to obey an unassailable trade-off called the Iron Cross of project management. Good, fast, cheap, done: Pick any three you like. You can't have the fourth.

The reality is that a good project manager understands that these four attributes have coefficients. A good manager drives a project to be good enough, fast enough, cheap enough, and done as much as necessary. A good manager manages the coefficients on these attributes rather than demanding that all those coefficients are 100%. It is this kind of management that Agile strives to enable.

So after that I had a new rule. If I'm hired by the plant engineer, I only go over his head if I'm in project failure mode. If the project is going to fail, then I'll go over his head. But as long as the project is going to come out, I never go over his head. Now, that's a rule I still follow today.

The government will even lend you the money to fix up or rehabilitate the project if you qualify.

Susan is happy off on another project to save yet another endangered creature. But I miss Irving, and though Susan would laugh at me probably, I like to think that Irving is somewhere chasing angelic speedboats, or maybe he's got his own wings. Surely, even God needs a laugh now and then, and Irving is a funny guy, for a monster.

I need to finish this scarf/shawl/blanket thing so I can start something for Emma- a hat, maybe, or a sweater for her stuffed elephant.

It was Rudolf Carnap's dream for the last three decades of his life to show that science proceeds by a formal syntactic method; today no one to my knowledge holds out any hope for that project.

Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month.

When you smile and project an aura of warmth, kindness, and friendliness, you will attract warms, kindness, and friendliness. Happy people will be drawn to you.

When the revolution aborted the project, the rulers of the United Arab Emirates realized the need for such a city and created in their kingdom the unfulfilled dream of the Shah. Today's Dubai is the child of yesterday's aborted Kish project.

The more people you have to ask for permission, the more dangerous a project gets.

In hock to the excitements and commercial advantages of rage, the news cruelly ignores the project of consolation.

The time it will take to finish a programming project is twice as long as the time you've allotted for it.

My mother was really my partner in every project that I had. She was just the great enabler of my dreams.

Though actually kids did not need liberating except from normative training. So it was an anti-colonial project of a sort to defend children from the state.

I knew it. You're a romantic. God, I'm going to have to look after you, Eric, make a special project of you the next four years, because if you take that shit out into the world, that kind of fucking idealism, you'll get slaughtered. You'll get creamed. It'll be the death of you.

If you live by the same values and priorities [Jesus] had, you will find evangelism happening naturally. It becomes a life-style and not a project.

Is this part of the geography project? Are you wandering the riverbed or just each other?