Top 15 Gerald M. Weinberg Quotes

What you don't know may not hurt you, but what you don't remember always does.

problem-solving leaders have one thing in common: a faith that there's always a better way.

PREFACE PROBLEM: Nobody reads prefaces.
SOLUTION: Call the preface Chapter 1.
NEW PROBLEM CREATED BY SOLUTION: Chapter 1 is boring.
RESOLUTION: Throw away Chapter 1 and call Chapter 2 Chapter 1.

People don't become leaders because they never fail. They become leaders because of the way they respond to failure.

The best computer programmers never write a new program when they can use an old one for a new job.

If you are a leader, the people are your work.

If you don't have questions about a product's risks, then there's no reason to test. If you have at least one such question, then ask: Will these tests cost more to execute than their answers will be worth?

Once you eliminate your number one problem, number two gets a promotion.

Leadership is familiar, but not well understood.

Testing gathers information about a product; it does not fix things it finds that are wrong.

One of the hardest choices for technical stars who become leaders is losing touch with the latest in technology.

There are many technical workers who enjoy wandering so much that, like Alice in Wonderland, they don’t much care where they go, so long as they get somewhere.

If you cannot think of three ways of abusing a tool, you do not understand how to use it.

Fisher's Fundamental Theorem states — in terms appropriate to the present context — that the better adapted a system is to a particular environment, the less adaptable it is to new environments.

Unless and until all members of a team have a common understanding of the problem, attempts to solve the problem are just so much wasted energy.