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The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.

The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.

Grady Booch
Simple, Simplicity, Computer
"Qt for Symbian". Book by Frank H. P. Fitzek et al., 2010.

A fool with a tool is still a fool.

Grady Booch
Tools, Fool, Testing

The task of the software development team is to engineer the illusion of simplicity.

Grady Booch
Team, Simplicity, Tasks
Grady Booch, Robert Maksimchuk, Michael Engle, Jim Conallen, Kelli Houston (2007). “Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications”, p.40, Pearson Education

The amateur software engineer is always in search of magic.

Grady Booch
Magic, Software, Engineers
Grady Booch, Robert Maksimchuk, Michael Engle, Jim Conallen, Kelli Houston (2007). “Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications”, p.339, Pearson Education

All of life is iterative. It goes back to the point I made earlier, which is you can't a priori know enough to even ask the right questions.

Grady Booch
Life Is, Enough, Made

Multiple Inheritance is like a parachute. You don't often need it, but when you do, you really need it.

Grady Booch
Needs, Inheritance, Multiple

In 2031, lawyers will be commonly a part of most development teams.

Grady Booch
Team, Development, Lawyer

UML is not dessert topping and floor wax.

Grady Booch
Dessert, Toppings
Twitter post from Aug 4, 2016

Hierarchy is a kind of order of abstractions.

Grady Booch
Order, Hierarchy, Kind

C++ also supports the notion of friends: cooperative classes that are permitted to see each other's private parts.

Grady Booch
Class, Support, Notion
Grady Booch (1991). “Object Oriented Design: With Applications”, Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Company

Ah, but who do you think created the chaos?

Grady Booch
Thinking, Chaos
Grady Booch, Robert Maksimchuk, Michael Engle, Jim Conallen, Kelli Houston (2007). “Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications”, p.31, Pearson Education

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