Gerald Weinberg

"The generalist, is like the fox, who knows many things. Just as anthropologists learn to live in many cultures, without rifles, so do certain scientists manage to adapt comfortably to the paradigms of…"

"A system is never finished being developed until it ceases to be used."

"The Second Law of Consulting: No matter how it looks at first, it's always a people problem."

"The Third Law of Consulting: Never forget they're paying you by the hour, not by the solution."

"As any poet knows, a system is a way of looking at the world."

"The general systems movement has taken up the task of helping scientists unravel complexity, technologists to master it, and others to learn to live with it."

"We have come through a strange cycle in programming, starting with the creation of programming itself as a human activity. Executives with the tiniest smattering of knowledge assume that anyone can wr…"

"We were doing incremental development as early as 1957, in Los Angeles, under the direction of Bernie Dimsdale . He was a colleague of John von Neumann, so perhaps he learned it there, or assumed it a…"