Structured Approach Quotes

Yet, I am convinced that there is a need for high quality software, and the time will come when it will be recognized that it is worth investing effort in its development and in using a careful, structured approach based on safe, structured languages.

Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.

Design is important because chaos is so hard.

I have a timetable, but no routine.

I call myself an addicted organizer.

Discipline gives you the freedom to be creative.

I grew up in the IBM school of management.

In my experience, depth of work consists of two components. The first is recklessness; the second is discipline. Dionysian; Apollonian. Passion;reason.

To design is to plan and to organize, to order, to relate and to control. In short it embraces all means of opposing disorder and accident. Therefore it signifies a human need and qualifies man’s thinking and doing.

I'm not a perfectionist but I'm definitely, or well, I like discipline. I'm obedient. I'm not a perfectionist.

The better organized you are in the simple things, the more spontaneous and free you can be in the ore important things.

I'm not into division. I'm into coordination, discipline and tradition.

I'm a regular guy; I like well-defined outlines. I'm old-fashioned, bourgeois.

People, especially successful people, are habitual creatures. They're organized. This makes them productive - Gus Mitchell

At all times it is better to have a method.

I think constraints are very important. They're positive, because they allow you to work off something.

If you don't have discipline, you can't have a successful program.

I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don't know what you're doing.

I'm sticking to the script, I'm putting that organic feeling back in the game.

You can't manage the creative process on a quarterly basis. The way we're structured has really helped us grow.

Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.

A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved.

Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.

The thing about discipline is that people misunderstand the word discipline. People think discipline in the dog world is punishment. Discipline is how you achieve what you want to achieve in life. You have to be very focused, very disciplined, very consistent, very diligent. All of those things.

I have to write in sequence and only in sequence.