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It occurred to me that it’s very rare for someone to come up with a fresh idea from nowhere, and that the mind’s “default setting” is to create “new” ideas by putting together easily-connectable preexisting ideas.
“you can visualize a system, you can probably implement it in a computer program.”
― A Philosophy of Software Design
― A Philosophy of Software Design
“If a system has a clean and obvious design, then it will need less documentation. The need for extensive documentation is often a red flag that the design isn’t quite right.”
― A Philosophy of Software Design
― A Philosophy of Software Design
“Unknown unknowns: The third symptom of complexity is that it is not obvious which pieces of code must be modified to complete a task, or what information a developer must have to carry out the task successfully.”
― A Philosophy of Software Design
― A Philosophy of Software Design
“Isolating complexity in a place where it will never be seen is almost as good as eliminating the complexity entirely.”
― A Philosophy of Software Design
― A Philosophy of Software Design
“If you can visualize a system, you can probably implement it in a computer program.”
― A Philosophy of Software Design
― A Philosophy of Software Design
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