Mcconnell Quotes & Sayings

It's better to wait for a productive programmer to become available than it is to wait for the first available programmer to become productive. — Steve McConnell

The president feels not only do we need to change these rogue regimes, but even our friendly allies, who really basically have, sort of, benign dictatorships, need to get with the program if they want to have long-term security and prosperity from terrorism. — Mitch McConnell

My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin. — Page McConnell

[A] re-elected McConnell, with a Republican majority, would, he says, emulate his model of majority leadership - the 16 years under a Democrat, Montana'€s Mike Mansfield. He, like McConnell, had a low emotional metabolism but a subtle sense of the Senate's singular role in the nation's constitutional equilibrium. — George Will

In software, the chain isn't as strong as its weakest link; it's as weak as all the weak links multiplied together. — Steve McConnell

For everybody who thinks it's warming, I can find somebody who thinks it isn't. — Mitch McConnell

A brute force solution that works is better than an elegant solution that doesn't work. — Steve McConnell

She eyed him. "You could be stalking me."
"I am the stalkee, never the stalker. — Lucy McConnell

The default movement on a software project should be in the direction of taking elements of the software away to make it simpler rather than adding elements to make it more complex. — Steve McConnell

Mitt Romney has never been resigned to what someone else said was possible. He cut his own path. That's why he believes in his heart that America has a future full of opportunity and hope. And that's why when Mitt Romney looks down the road, he sees a country that's ready for a comeback. — Mitch McConnell

Eighty percent of the errors are found in 20 percent of a project's classes or routines — Steve McConnell

We humans are in such a strange position - we are still animals whose behavior reflects that of our ancestors, yet we are unique - unlike any other animal on earth. Our distinctiveness separates us and makes it easy to forget where we came from. Perhaps dogs help us remember the depth of our roots, reminding us - the animals at the other end of the leash - that we may be special, but we are not alone. No wonder we call them our best friends. — Patricia McConnell

America is ready to elect its first African American President, especially one with light-skin and and no Negro dialect. — Mitch McConnell

Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience. — Page McConnell

The only way to reduce the variability in the estimate is to reduce the variability in the project. — Steve McConnell

Every piece has its own identity which we develop by the rule 'We know no limits.' We follow the inspiration of the moment and don't worry if what we're playing is alternative, progressive or fusion rock. — Page McConnell

If we stop and look over the past and then into the future, we can see that the possibilities are growing greater and greater every day; that we have scarcely begun to reach the proper results from the field we have before us. — David H. McConnell

An arrow isn't the only thing I shoot straight. If you ever come near my wife, you'll be hauled off in a body bag. — Lucy McConnell

The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that's going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress. — Mitch McConnell

You can do anything with stacks and iteration that you can do with recursion. — Steve McConnell

All Citizens United did was to level the playing field for corporate speech. We now have, I think, the most free and open system we've had in modern times. — Mitch McConnell

Reduce complexity. The single most important reason to create a routine is to reduce a program's complexity. Create a routine to hide information so that you won't need to think about it. — Steve McConnell

I'm very sad about Mitch McConnell probably getting to be Senate majority leader, if only for two years. To me, he is just everything that is wrong with the world, a bullying obstructionist blowhard liar (not to put too fine a point on it). — Anne Lamott

There are no secrets on an successful software project. Both good and bad news must be able to move up and down the ptoject hierarchy without restriction. — Steve McConnell

Mirror, mirror on the wall," She caught Beu's gaze in the reflection. "Who's the handsomest man of all? — Lucy McConnell

Mitt Romney has spent his entire life finding ways to solve problems. — Mitch McConnell

complicated code is a sign that you don't understand your program well enough to make it simple. — Steve McConnell

You save time when you don't need to have an awards ceremony every time a C statement does what it's supposed to. Moreover, — Steve McConnell

Implement "is a" through public inheritance. When a programmer decides to create a new class by inheriting from an existing class, that programmer is saying that the new class "is a" more specialized version of the older class. The base class sets expectations about how the derived class will operate and imposes constraints on how the derived class can operate (Meyers 1998). — Steve McConnell

developers insert an average of 1 to 3 defects per hour into their designs and 5 to 8 defects per hour into code — Steve McConnell

On small, informal projects, a lot of design is done while the programmer sits at the keyboard. "Design" might be just writing a class interface in pseudocode before writing the details. It might be drawing diagrams of a few class relationships before coding them. It might be asking another programmer which design pattern seems like a better choice. Regardless of how it's done, small projects benefit from careful design just as larger projects do, and recognizing design as an explicit activity maximizes the benefit you will receive from it. — Steve McConnell

The job of the average manager requires a shift in focus every few minutes. The job of the average software developer requires that the developer not shift focus more often than every few hours. — Steve McConnell

Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the center, there are things we can accomplish. — Mitch McConnell

I'm actually a lowlife. On the street at fifteen and also in jail for the first time at that age, and off and on the street until my mid-twenties. — Patricia McConnell

Forcing free market plans to compete with these government-run programs would create an unlevel playing field and inevitably doom true competition ... — Mitch McConnell

A reporter asked recently, 'What keeps you up at night?' I replied that I generally sleep well, but if I ever do have trouble, I don't have to count sheep. I count all the states I'm glad I'm not the governor of. — Mitch McConnell

You'll regret this, and you may regret this a lot sooner than you think. — Mitch McConnell

Use locking to control access to global variables. Similar to concurrency control in a multiuser database environment, locking requires that before the value of a global variable can be used or updated, the variable must be "checked out." After the variable is used, it's checked back in. During the time it's in use (checked out), if some other part of the program tries to check it out, the lock/unlock routine displays an error message or fires an assertion. — Steve McConnell

Although I was simply what today would be called a "mule" - the bottom of the food chain in the drug biz - the federal system treated me from beginning to end like a major criminal, and I still don't know why, other than that in those days, 6.5 ounces of heroin was a big load. Ludicrous by today's standards, when coke, heroin, and weed are shipped across the border by the ton. — Patricia McConnell

More young people believe they'll see a U.F.O. than that they'll see their own Social Security benefits. — Mitch McConnell

I don't believe anyone can go through the prison experience without being changed by it. The experience becomes part of your identity forever. — Patricia McConnell

At eighty-one, health club-lusting is as close as I'll ever come to getting laid again. — Patricia McConnell

Jesus never spoke of truth in abstraction, as something that stands alone. Jesus always spoke of truth in relation to God being revealed through himself. — Tim McConnell

People like Mike McConnell don't really move from public office to the private sector and back again; that implies more separation than actually exists. Rather, the U.S. government and industry interests essentially form one gigantic, amalgamated, inseparable entity - with a public division and a private one. When someone like McConnell goes from a top private sector position to a top government post in the same field, it's more like an intracorporate reassignment than it is like changing employers. When McConnell serves as DNI he's simply in one division of this entity, and when he's at Booz Allen he is in another. It's precisely the same way that Goldman Sachs officials endlessly move in and out of the Treasury Department and other government positions with financial authority, or the way that health care and oil executives move in and out of government agencies charged with regulating those fields. In — Glenn Greenwald

The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it. — Mitch McConnell

Robots get to see the worst of the human condition on a daily basis. Good thing they don't have feelings. — Martin McConnell

The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president. — Mitch McConnell

We're living under the Obama economy. Any CEO in America with a record like this after three years on the job would be graciously shown the door. This president blames the managers instead. He blames the folks on the shop floor. He blames the weather. — Mitch McConnell

Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out? — Mitch McConnell

A good estimate is an estimate that provides a clear enough view of the project reality to allow the project leadership to make good decisions about how to control the project to hit its targets. — Steve McConnell

Inheritance adds complexity to a program, and, as such, it's a dangerous technique. As Java guru Joshua Bloch says, "Design and document for inheritance, or prohibit it." If a class isn't designed to be inherited from, make its members non-virtual in C++, final in Java, or non-overridable in Microsoft Visual Basic so that you can't inherit from it. — Steve McConnell

Good visual layout shows the logical structure of a program. — Steve McConnell

Well, I am as much a cheerleader for President Obama as Sen. McConnell is a Chippendale dancer. — Alison Lundergan Grimes

By their own admission, leaders of the Republican Revolution of 1994 think their greatest mistake was overlooking the power of the veto. They gave the impression they were somehow in charge when they weren't. — Mitch McConnell

On their way to America, the Pilgrims argued about the best maximum length for a routine. After arguing about it for the entire trip, they arrived at Plymouth Rock and started to draft the Mayflower Compact. They still hadn't settled the maximum-length question, and since they couldn't disembark until they'd signed the compact, they gave up and didn't include it. The result has been an interminable debate ever since about how long a routine can be. — Steve McConnell

Mothering well is a prayerful art. - Lori McConnell, Restoring Hope in a Woman's Heart — Stasi Eldredge

inheritance is a powerful tool for reducing complexity because a programmer can focus on the generic attributes of an object without worrying about the details. If a programmer must be constantly thinking about semantic differences in subclass implementations, then inheritance is increasing complexity rather than reducing it. — Steve McConnell

You never know where your influences are going to come from, or where you're going to find your inspiration. — Page McConnell

I couldn't stand living in a society that admires the emperor's new clothes, when I see so clearly that he is naked. — Patricia McConnell

She was warned.
She was given an explanation.
Nevertheless, she persisted. — Mitch McConnell

Testing by itself does not improve software quality. Test results are an indicator of quality, but in and of themselves, they don't improve it. Trying to improve software quality by increasing the amount of testing is like trying to lose weight by weighing yourself more often. What you eat before you step onto the scale determines how much you will weigh, and the software development techniques you use determine how many errors testing will find. If you want to lose weight, don't buy a new scale; change your diet. If you want to improve your software, don't test more; develop better. — Steve McConnell

There should be evidence that there is demand for your ministry that exceeds the capacity of your current geographical location or facilities. If there isn't enough demand for your ministry to fill one building, who are you kidding? There won't be more demand on the other side of town either. — Scott McConnell

If the derived class isn't going to adhere completely to the same interface contract defined by the base class, inheritance is not the right implementation technique. Consider containment or making a change further up the inheritance hierarchy. — Steve McConnell

Study after study has shown that motivation probably has a larger effect on productivity and quality than any other factor — Steve McConnell

To call this a recovery is an insult to recoveries. — Mitch McConnell

It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; it's even harder when you've assumed your code is error-free. — Steve McConnell

Fear begets fiction and fiction gives a shape to fear — Frank McConnell

Programmers working with high-level languages achieve better productivity and quality than those working with lower-level languages. Languages such as C++, Java, Smalltalk, and Visual Basic have been credited with improving productivity, reliability, simplicity, and comprehensibility by factors of 5 to 15 over low-level languages such as assembly and C (Brooks 1987, Jones 1998, Boehm 2000). You save time when you don't need to have an awards ceremony every time a C statement does what it's supposed to. — Steve McConnell

Software projects fail for one of two general reasons: the project team lacks the knowledge to conduct a software project successfully, or the project team lacks the resolve to conduct a project effectively. — Steve McConnell

If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days. — Page McConnell

Favor read-time convenience to write-time convenience. Code — Steve McConnell

Mature testing organizations tend to have five dirty tests for every clean test. — Steve McConnell

It's time Congress got its priorities straight. — Mitch McConnell

The only candidate pocketing big money from people who want to destroy coal is Mitch McConnell. — Alison Lundergan Grimes

For the first time since 1979, we are talking to the Islamic Republic of Iran. Obama says talking to him is probably pointless, but it's a hell of a relief from Mitch McConnell. — Bill Maher

Spend your time on the 20 percent of the refactorings that provide 80 percent of the benefit. — Steve McConnell

You can't force something like that. But we have encouraged our audience, because we avoid the confrontation of regular rock concerts: us up here, you down there. Instead, we're looking for interaction. — Page McConnell

The new troops in Iraq need to be Iraqi troops. — Mitch McConnell

I can't possibly get into your knickers. — Jack McConnell

While other state governments stiff their vendors, close parks, delay tax refunds, and ignore unacceptably poor service levels, Indiana state employees are setting national standards for efficiency. — Mitch McConnell

I can say now is that sneaking up on people is a major delight in my old age, but it always has been. A desire, even a need, to shock. — Patricia McConnell

A crisis of confidence is so common that it should be considered a universal part of the adoption process. — Patricia McConnell

Be sure that the names you choose favor read-time convenience over write-time convenience. — Steve McConnell

Be critical of classes that contain more than about seven data members. The — Steve McConnell

Whether it's before the election or after the election, the principle is the American people are choosing their next president and their next president should pick this Supreme Court nominee. — Mitch McConnell

Prison experience puts distance between me and any person who hasn't been there, done that. — Patricia McConnell

We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us. — Francis John McConnell

My published works are concrete evidence that I exist. — Patricia McConnell

The biggest problem confronting the country is our excessive spending. If we're not going to deal with it now, when are we going to deal with it? And we've watched the government explode over the last four years. We've dealt with the revenue issue. — Mitch McConnell

It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it. — Steve McConnell

once gotos are introduced, they spread through the code like termites through a rotting house. — Steve McConnell

Programming requires more concentration than other activities. It's the reason programmers get upset about 'quick interruptions' - such interruptions are tantamount to asking a juggler to keep three balls in the air and hold your groceries at the same time. — Steve McConnell

If the administration wants cooperation, it will have to begin to move in our direction. — Mitch McConnell

Syria and Iran have always had a pretty tight relationship, and it looks to me like they just cooked up a press release to put out to sort of restate the obvious. They're both problem countries; we know that. And this doesn't change anything. — Mitch McConnell

This heinous crime should be of particular concern to all of us ... I know my colleagues will agree that the murder of Americans overseas cannot go unpunished. I will continue to closely follow developments in this case[.] — Mitch McConnell

On the issue of Iraq, it is my hope, and my challenge to my colleagues, that our debate will be based on what is best for the future of our nation and for Iraq, not what's best for a political party or presidential campaign. — Mitch McConnell

We hear the stories every day now: the father who puts on a suit every morning and leaves the house so his daughter doesn't know he lost his job, the recent college grad facing up to the painful reality that the only door that's open to her after four years of study and a pile of debt is her parents'. These are the faces of the Obama economy. — Mitch McConnell

McConnell writes, "In ten years the pendulum has swung from 'design everything' to 'design nothing.' But the alternative to BDUF [Big Design Up Front] isn't no design up front, it's a Little Design Up Front (LDUF) or Enough Design Up Front (ENUF)." This is a strawman argument. The alternative to designing before implementing is designing after implementing. — Kent Beck

Pamela shook her head as she swiveled the computer screen so Noah could see the grainy black-and-white video of a group of men in SWAT gear approaching a box. Soon there was a bomb-bot poking the thing, and finally a new man in protective gear picked it up. "Harley is being stalked by someone her — Lucy McConnell

Avoid duplicate code. Undoubtedly the most popular reason for creating a routine is to avoid duplicate code. Indeed, creation of similar code in two routines implies an error in decomposition. Pull the duplicate code from both routines, put a generic version of the common code into a base class, and then move the two specialized routines into subclasses. — Steve McConnell