13 Quotes by Bertrand Meyer

To focus on the visible at the expense of the essential is irresponsible.

The Scrum idea of a separated Scrum Master is good for Scrum, but not appropriate for most projects. Good development requires not just talkers but doers.

Incorrect documentation is often worse than no documentation.

The role of a trainer or consultant is to empower the customer, not to make himself indispensable.

You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time.

Perfect reusable components are not obtained at the first shot.

Eiffel borrows quite openly from several earlier programming languages and I am sure that if we had found a good language construct in C we would have used it as well.

Ask not first what the system does; ask what it does it to!

Correctness is clearly the prime quality. If a system does not do what it is supposed to do, then everything else about it matters little.