Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Larry Constantine

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American engineer Larry Constantine.
Last updated on April 15, 2025.
Larry Constantine

Larry LeRoy Constantine is an American software engineer, professor in the Center for Exact Sciences and Engineering at the University of Madeira Portugal, and considered one of the pioneers of computing. He has contributed numerous concepts and techniques forming the foundations of modern practice in software engineering and applications design and development.

We offer them mediocrity while calling it magic. We offer them the illusion of intelligent software, seducing them into surrendering the task of thinking to the machine. Of course, the machine isn't thinking, which means that nobody is.
A dynamic duo who work well together can be worth any three people working in isolation.
Hiring people to write code to sell is not the same as hiring people to design and build durable, usable, dependable software. — © Larry Constantine
Hiring people to write code to sell is not the same as hiring people to design and build durable, usable, dependable software.
In fast moving markets, adaptation is significantly more important than optimization.
The best meetings get real work done. When your people learn that your meetings actually accomplish something, they will stop making excuses to be elsewhere.
If we play genie and grant client wishes, we are apt to construct castles of code in the air.
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