多想個10秒鐘,你可以『不』說「嗯,這個做得到」
常常我們在最後關頭,答應了顧客,點頭說『嗯,這個可以辦得到』。這是程式設計師惡夢的開始。
There is no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about. -- John von Neumann
Wirth's Law: Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster. - Niklaus Wirth.
People forget how fast you did a job- but they always remember how well you did it. - Howard Newton.
The notion that good [design] techniques restrict creativity is like saying that an artist can paint without learning the details of form or a musician does not need knowledge of music theory -- Marvin Zelkowitz et al.
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later -- F.P. Brooks
The best way to get a project done faster is to start sooner.-- Jim Highsmith
Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable.--Ralph Johnson