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Google GTAC 2009: Niklaus Wirth and favorite quotes from the live Google Wave of GTAC

"Testing can only show the existence of errors, but never their absence." E.W.Dijkstra

"I don't know what to do, this is Windows" --- Nicolas Wettstein, Google

"If you don't like the tools in the software world, then I advise you to dive into the hardware world for a few days and you will come back happier" Prof. Niklaus Wirth

"Universities are not good places to learn programing." Prof. Niklaus Wirth (PS: a few professors here at the GTAC become very nervous)

"If the system gets complicated, automate it" - Niklaus Wirth (PS: I love this one, this is THE reason that pushed me to present my speech at the IASA Conference in New York. Techies love to repeat tasks... instead of creating automations, components or processes... they repeat like monkeys !!!)

"Testing is debugging until it runs" Niklaus Wirth (PS: That was true in the past, we learned the lesson: debugging is not testing ! Remember the monkeys)

 

       
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