Booch Quotes & Sayings

UML is not dessert topping and floor wax. — Grady Booch

Ah, but who do you think created the chaos? — Grady Booch

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

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

I think, as a woman, you have to really make sure that you're taking care of yourself and make sure that you're covered and you have enough material written for you. — Paula Pell

And that the arming of so many black youths, uh, and loading up our community with drugs, and then just having an open shooting gallery, is the work of people who obviously don't have our best interests [at heart]. — Jason Whitlock

But we shall not know the world by looking at it; we know it by looking at the hovering fly. — Allen Tate

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

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

There's the job and then there's my family. There's very little time beyond that for friends. — Dalton McGuinty

I did learn Chinese kung-fu in a school for a short time, but I couldn't afford to pay for long-term learning. — Stephen Chow

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

The amateur software engineer is always in search of magic. — Grady Booch

Obedience to a confessor is the most acceptable offering which we can make to God, and the most secure way of doing the divine will. — Alphonsus Liguori

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

Hierarchy is a kind of order of abstractions. — Grady Booch