fotojt.jpg (62 kbytes) Joaquim Moreira da Silva Torres
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Professor auxiliar convidado do Departamento de I.C.T. da Universidade Portucalense.
Responsável pela Direcção de Automação e Sistemas da Microprocessador -- Sistemas Digitais, SA

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  • Desenvolvimento de Software
  • Inteligência Artificial
  • Comunicações
  • Gestão Integrada de Edifícios
  • Automação e Supervisão Industrial

   

"There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all." - Peter Drucker

"There are two ways of constructing a software design;
one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies,
and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
The first method is far more difficult." - C. A. R. Hoare

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever is left - however improbable - must be the truth" - Sherlock Holmes

Hoare's Law of Large Programs:   Inside every large program is a small program struggling to get out.

"What gets measured gets done, what gets measured and fed back gets done well, what gets rewarded gets repeated." - John E Jones

Weinberg's Law:    If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves."  - Lao-Tsé

O livro "The Mythical Man-Month", escrito por Fred Brooks, é considerado a Bíblia da Engenharia de Software: todos o leram e o elogiam, mas ninguém liga ao que lá está escrito.        

"There's a good part of Computer Science that's like magic. Unfortunately there's a bad part of Computer Science that's like religion." — Hal Abelson


"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away" - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"A grande tragédia da Ciência é a destruição de uma bela hipótese por um facto horrível" - Thomas Huxley
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction." - Albert Einstein

Última alteração em 05/12/2009