Gerald Weinberg

Also known as Gerald Marvin Weinberg, Gerald M. Weinberg

American computer scientist (1933-2018)

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“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.”