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Dave Parnas Quotes

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: February 10, 1941

Topics

Work Computers Software Real Rule

Today's consumer is less interested in possessing things and more in experiencing them. That's something the music industry needs to get its head around. Do we even need record companies any more?

Jimmy Chamberlin

Music Today More Need Head Industry

When we die, our spirits go to the spirit world, and our bodies return to the elements of the earth until the resurrection.

World Die Earth Go Spirit Return

There's something that goes on in a new-business meeting that's wonderful to watch. It's like showtime. There are people who are nervous, and there are people who are jittery, and there's so much drama and so much at stake.

Jerry Della Femina

People Meeting Drama Nervous Watch

Not every story in history has a beginning, a middle and an end, but the wreck of the Titanic does. It begins when they leave, in the middle it hits an iceberg, and in the final two hours, the ship sinks.

History Beginning Story Ship End

I was lined up to do this honors degree course in biology, of all things, for no better reason than I got high marks in it. I decided I didn't want to be removing worms' hearts for the rest of my life in Northern Ontario. I thought I would try acting. So, I went to England to study drama. I got Shakespeared out.

Life Rest Thought Better My Life

Back in the 1950s and '60s, J. M. Barrie's 'Peter Pan' - starring Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard - was regularly aired on network television during the Christmas season. I must have seen it four or five times and remember, in particular, Ritchard's gloriously camp interpretation of Captain Hook.

Remember Back Television Christmas

Non-profits must become deeply engaged in the ways that their donor communities are using social technology.

Simon Mainwaring

Technology Become Social Must Deeply

It was a bit of a surprise when I became a Tory MP. My friends said it was a stupid idea.

Stupid Surprise Friends Said Idea

I could say Liverpool is the first big club I will play for. It's a massive chance for me to show what I can do.

Roberto Firmino

Me Chance I Can Play Say Will

I still believe on some level that at the end, somebody will say, 'You get an A-minus for your life.' And it's not true. It's not true.

Life Believe End You Say True

I don't go to rock bars. Why would I go to rock bars? I can do that every night; it's boring.

Night I Can Go Boring Rock Why

What I don't like is breakfast in the morning. I have a double-espresso cappuccino, but no food.

Morning Food Breakfast Like

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