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Paul Clements • Software Architecture in Practice, 4th Edition
quality has no discernable metric
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On Quality: An Inquiry into Excellence: Unpublished and Selected Writings
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Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
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High quality always beats a bargain over time. Although there are certainly exceptions, in the long run, bargains never outperform solid investments. This simple yet profound principle can be applied to virtually every area of life. Crash diets, predatory pricing, dishonesty, and shortcuts can work well for a while, but they are never sustainable.
Gautam Baid • The Joys of Compounding: The Passionate Pursuit of Lifelong Learning, Revised and Updated (Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing Series)
Markets systematically underprice quality over long time periods.
Gautam Baid • The Joys of Compounding: The Passionate Pursuit of Lifelong Learning, Revised and Updated (Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing Series)
Formal definition of quality attributes is pretty established in the standards world, although few practitioners are aware of them. For example, the product quality model defined in ISO/IEC 25010,13 part of the SQuaRe model, comprises the eight quality characteristics shown in Figure 2.5.