"… I pounded the doors at the local IBM sales office until a salesman took pity on me. After we chatted for a while, h…"

"The (UML) is a general-purpose visual modeling language that is used to specify, visualize, construct, and document t…"

"As a noun, design is the named (although sometimes unnamable) structure or behavior of a system whose presence resolv…"

"The amateur software engineer is always in search of magic, some sensational method or tool whose application promise…"

"is a style of enterprise application development and integration, based on using automated tools to build system inde…"

"The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple."

"In the early days of modern computing - the 40s, 50s and 60s - computing was a priesthood. Only a few were allowed to…"

"A physician, a civil engineer, and a computer scientist were arguing about what was the oldest profession in the worl…"

"Structured design does not scale up well for extremely complex systems, and this method is largely inappropriate for …"

"The entire history of software engineering is that of the rise in levels of abstraction."