Quotes

These are my selected thoughts I posted previously on Facebook, Twitter, and where appropriate, on LinkedIn.

-    Fiction is for Diagnostics. Science Fiction is for Prognostics.

-    History is an exception. History starts with diagnostics.

-    You cannot fit a gigabyte into one byte, but you can stream through it.

-    Modern software traces require engineers to activate their neural networks.

-    Crash dump analysis No. 18643. “See crash dump analysis No. 14120”.

-    A desire to bomb comes from the suppression of certain instincts during childhood.

-    A too perfect program is most likely malware. (After reading “The Discovered Country” by Ian MacLeod).

-    If it rains for too long, it may be a simulation.

-    Again German language helps to understand the essence of software. Hang (in German) - tendency.

-    After an hour of code come many hours of analysis.

-    A software support practitioner is a diplomat who brings peace to both sides: a user and a developer.

-    Win-Dbg is a situation you frequently discover when working with Windows. Neither Win-Win nor Win-Lose.

-    If I were a Unixoid, I would have moved to Windows because of WinDbg (WinningDbg).

-    A dump analysis job is in some way similar to an accountant job - examining records of some company.

-    “Terminal error” has two meanings: soft and hard.

-    When you write defect-laden code, you need to follow coding standards otherwise you end up with defects inside defects and start debugging to make your defects correct. (From the forthcoming “Software Defect Construction: Simulation and Modeling of Software Bugs”).

-    You only discover new patterns when you work slowly.

-    I am a diagnostician. I only see problems. You have a problem. Your computer system is healthy.

-    Intuition: pattern recall from internalized pattern catalogues. Therefore, pattern-oriented software diagnostics help increase your problem-solving intuition by diagnosing the right problem.

-    Inaccessible Data Analysis is the next big thing.

-    A good trace is one that has an answer when you search for “reason”.

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