Uncle Bob and Silver Bullets

Re:Uncle Bob and Silver Bullets by arwhatever on Friday October 06, 2017 @01:23PM (#15418502)

Someone help me with the origin of this (paraphrased) quote, which I have not been able to re-find on my own:

"The sooner you admit that you can't fit the whole program's source code in your head, the sooner you can begin incorporating that into your design."

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Re:Uncle Bob and Silver Bullets by Jtsummers on Friday October 06, 2017 @02:03PM (#15418879)

Notes on Structured Programming: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd02xx/EWD249.PDF

Page 3:

  Summarizing: as a slow-witted human being I have a very
  small head and I had better learn to live with it and to
  respect my limitations and give them full credit, rather
  than to try to ignore them, for the latter vain effort
  will be punished by failure.

The Humble Programmer: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd03xx/EWD340.PDF

Page 11:

  The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly
  limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches
  the programming task in full humility, and among other
  things he avoids clever tricks like the plague.

He expressed similar thoughts on other occasions. And there are others who express the same idea.

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Re:Uncle Bob and Silver Bullets by dorian-graph on Friday October 06, 2017 @05:06PM (#15420490)

Thank you for this! It's nice to have a large repository of EWD's writings.

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