Gerald Weinberg

Person · Open Library

Works

4

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Soviet Union

Active from

1919-12-08

Active to

1996-02-26

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Hallmarks of Cancer: The Next Generation

   · 2011 · cited 56,539x

2. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

   · 2000 · cited 36,901x

3. The Hallmarks of Cancer

   · 2000 · cited 22,926x

4. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

   · 2001 · cited 18,617x

5. Improved Survival with Ipilimumab in Patients with Metastatic Melanoma

   · 2010 · cited 12,985x

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Quotes

• “I believe, however, that humans are the only animals that we know who invents tools for working together - and they have done that as long as we have considered them human.”
• “When program developers are not territorial about their code and encourage others to look for bugs and potential improvements, progress speeds up dramatically.”
• “We were doing incremental development as early as 1957, in Los Angeles, under the direction of Bernie Dimsdale [at IBM's ServiceBureau Corporation]. He was a colleague of John von Neumann, so perhaps he learned it there, or assumed it as totally natural. I do remember Herb Jacobs (primarily, though we all participated) developing a large simulation for Motorola, where the technique used was, as far as I can tell, indistinguishable from XP.”
• “A system is never finished being developed until it ceases to be used.”
• “Let’s hope that no system of theory of systems will ever eliminate the other systems – that no approach will be promoted to a dogma, and no group of scientists will become the high priests. Shouldn’t we rather let a hundred flowers bloom...?”
• “If builders built houses the way programmers built programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Gerald

Family name

Weinberg

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Chicago

Occupation

writer

Languages spoken

English language

Academic degree

Doctor of Philosophy

Doctoral advisor

Anatol Rapoport

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