Andy Hertzfeld Quotes

You have to develop your whole game to completion.

There is no schedule. We are all volunteers, so we get it done when we get it done. Perl 5 still works fine, and we plan to take the right amount of time on Perl 6.

Running the test suite like this allows us to catch problems when they are just introduced.

My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.

Developer testing is an important step towards accountability. It gives developers a way to demonstrate the quality of the software they produce.

You can’t really understand the challenges involved with any major tech project until you start trying to build it.

I don't think I've ever worked on anything that wasn't way bigger than we expected. That's all the way back to working on fighting games at Paradox. Everything seems to balloon when more and more people get involved.

As you get to the end of the project you want to run all the tests cases against one version and make sure that you know that that version passed everything. And so as you get late in the project you get a little more conservative about making radical changes to the software.

I work on OpenBSD fulltime, as the project leader. I set some directions, increase communication between the developers, and try to be involved in nearly every aspect of the base system.

I found out that most programmers don't like to test their software as intensely as I do.

I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product.

We worked with the engineers in the design and construction and testing phases in those various areas, then we would get back together at the end of the week and brief each other as to what had gone on.

Good companies do whatever it takes to make sure apps are great and don't hesitate to add features.

What commercialism has brought into Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out.

Testing, we will never do enough of it.

There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple.

It was obviously a pretty hectic development schedule and we put a huge team on to it but it paid off because we continuously get complemented on the finished product.

Cosmoe is nearing the stage where I would feel comfortable doing a preliminary release aimed at developers.

I designed and developed an unbelievable number of applications early in my life.

Within HTC, hundreds of ideas are tested and discarded to find those rare ideas that define the HTC user experience.

Everybody in the real world will agree - the moment a project is behind deadline, quality assurance tends to go out the window.

A good designer has a lot in common with a good researcher. Both hunt for excellence and perfection. And you have to really focus on the details, and you don't really know what the final result will be before you have it.

Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.

Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again.

Early in my career, I was involved with engineer-led projects, where designers came in late in the game and were expected to put lipstick on an existing code base. This almost never works.