适合系统编程的语言必须支持可变变量。

在正式发布之前，没有缺陷是可能的。

这绝对不是真的，即使P2缺陷有时也会被打开。

通过实现客户想要的东西来满足客户——不幸的是，这意味着客户知道他想要什么。

我相信创建程序就像在课堂上教的一样……你和一群人坐在一起，讨论一个问题，想出一个解决方案，等等。相反，现实世界是“这是我的问题，我需要解决它，开始”，十分钟后你又遇到了另一个问题，让你没有真正的时间来有效地计划解决方案。

我仍然对以下的一些误解感到困扰——尽管我知道这些误解是正确的，但我仍然试图抓住它们不放:

All stakeholders will make decisions about software design objectively. Those that aren't embroiled in writing the code make all sorts of decisions based entirely on emotion that don't always make sense to us developers. Project budgets always make sense - I've seen companies that are quite happy to drop [just for example] $50,000 a month for years rather than pay $250,000 to have a project completed in 6 months. The government for one loses their annual budget if they don't spend it - so spend it they will, come hell or high water. It astounds me at how many project dollars are wasted on things like this. You should always use the right tools for the right job - sometimes this decision is not in your hands. Sometimes it comes down from on high that "thou shalt use X technology" for this project, leaving you thinking "WTF! Who came up with that ridiculous idea?"... the guy paying your paycheque, that's who, now get it done. Programming ideology comes first and foremost, everything else is secondary. In reality, deadlines and business objectives need to be met in order to get your paycheque. Sometimes you make the worst decisions because you just don't have time to do it the right way... just as sometimes that word is on the tip of your tongue but the minute it takes to recall it makes you choose a different and less ideal word. There isn't always time to do it right, sometimes there is only time to do it - however that may be. Hence oft' seen anti-patterns used by so called experienced developers who have to knock out a solution to a problem 10 minutes before the presentation deadline for the software being delivered to your best client tomorrow.

我曾经认为编写Win32应用程序就足够了。

而且每个程序都必须有一个GUI，因为命令行已经“过时”了。