Thinking doesn't guarantee that we won't make mistakes. But not thinking guarantees that we will.

— Leslie Lamport, Why We Should Build Software Like We Build Houses (2013)

Source: https://www.wired.com/2013/01/code-bugs-programming-why-we-need-specs/

Appears in a Wired article of January 25, 2013, titled 'Why We Should Build Software Like We Build Houses'.

Topics: software engineering