{"id":188,"date":"2015-09-04T02:11:05","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T02:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.voidbred.com\/blog\/?p=188"},"modified":"2015-09-04T02:44:08","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T02:44:08","slug":"quality-and-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.voidbred.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/quality-and-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Quality and Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My last post and talking about what quality software is reminded me of &#8220;Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here is an excerpt from chapter 18:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ph\u00e6drus wrote, with some beginning awareness that he was involved in a strange kind of intellectual suicide, &#8220;Squareness may be succinctly and yet thoroughly defined as an inability to see quality before it&#8217;s been intellectually defined, that is, before it gets all chopped up into words &#8212; .We have proved that quality, though undefined, exists. Its existence can be seen empirically in the classroom, and can be demonstrated logically by showing that a world without it cannot exist as we know it. What remains to be seen, the thing to be analyzed, is not quality, but those peculiar habits of thought called `squareness&#8217; that sometimes prevent us from seeing it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My last post and talking about what quality software is reminded me of &#8220;Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.&#8221; Here is an excerpt from chapter 18: Ph\u00e6drus wrote, with some beginning awareness that he was involved in a strange kind of intellectual suicide, &#8220;Squareness may be succinctly and yet thoroughly defined as an inability&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.voidbred.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.voidbred.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.voidbred.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.voidbred.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.voidbred.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.voidbred.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192,"href":"http:\/\/www.voidbred.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.voidbred.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.voidbred.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.voidbred.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}