From Security expert Charlie Miller, in an article on computer security:
Mac OS X is like living in a farmhouse in the country with no locks, and Windows is living in a house with bars on the windows in the bad part of town.
Archive for the ‘Quote of the Week’ Category
From Arthur Bloch:
If your project doesn’t work, look for the part that you didn’t think was important.
From Robert Brault:
A blogger is an average person who happens to have a need to count his friends every half hour.
From unknown:
QA didn’t break anything, it was broken when we got it.
Love the way this simply quote re-directs criticism of QA when bugs are uncovered.
From Kent Beck, quoted at 37 Signals:
By far the dominant reason for not releasing sooner was a reluctance to trade the dream of success for the reality of feedback.
From Seth Godwin:
If you’re getting feedback, realize that the person must care a lot to have sent it.
From an unknown source, but referenced in university notes for an agile course:
Ready, fire, aim (the fast approach to software development).
Ready, aim, aim, aim, aim … (the slow approach to software development).
From Jeff Patton, Agile Alliance, quoted in training materials on incremental release planning:
Project success is not product success