A Quote by Tom Duff

The first step in fixing a broken program is getting it to fail repeatably [on the simplest example possible].

Tom Duff

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Broken Example Fail First First Step Fixing Getting Possible Program Simplest Step

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Tom Duff
Programmer
Born: December 8, 1952

I was a teacher and an administrator at Parson's School of Design, and as an administrator, I was associate dean. And in that role, I went around fixing things that were broken. And the Parson's fashion program was broken.So fashion chose me. It needed to be developed and evolve. I don't know if it comes naturally to anyone.

Tim Gunn

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Fred Brooks

To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try.

Rosa Parks

Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplest possible things are imaginary.

Paul Lockhart

Step by step I'm getting my opportunities and what's important for me is to be prepared to show my best whenever possible.

Bojan Krkic

Funding privatized accounts with Social Security dollars would not only make the program's long term problems worse, but many believe it represents a first step toward undermining the program's fundamental goals.

Patty Murray

The idea was to study fertilization in as many different phyla and organisms as possible, using the simplest possible equipment and a microscope. Biochemical approaches were not much in vogue, and running gels impossible at first.

Tim Hunt

According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn't speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did. Still, it's an apt metaphor for our profession. But there's another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family. Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.

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Gene Cernan

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Tim Harford

You force people to stop asking questions, and before you know it they have auctioned off the question mark, or sold it for scrap. No boldness. No good ideas for fixing what's broken in the land. Because if you happen to mention it's broken, you are automatically disqualified.