Software Engineering

🇺🇸Barry Boehm

Science

1935–2022

"The Code-and-Fix Model. The basic model used in the earliest days of software development contained two steps:"

"OOA - Object-Oriented Analysis - is based upon concepts that we first learned in kindergarten: objects and attributes, wholes and parts, classes and members."

🇿🇦Phiwa Nkambule

Technology

b. 1992

"Growing up, I believed that people of African origin were born engineers and inventors. That belief boosted my confidence, which has become my greatest strength."

🇮🇪Brian O'Driscoll

Technology

b. 1979

"“Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.” wrote Miles Kington in the March 28, 2003 The Independent . The Big Apple"

🇺🇸Fred Brooks

Science

1931–2022

"The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one. Hence, descriptions of a software entity that abstract away its complexity often abstracts away its essence."

🇺🇸Kent Beck

Technology

b. 1961

"I always knew that one day Smalltalk would replace Java. I just didn't know it would be called Ruby."

🇺🇸Douglas Crockford

Literature

b. 1955

"Progress comes from finding better ways to do things. Don’t be afraid of innovation. Don’t be afraid of ideas that are not your own."