Specification Quotes - page 2

Today some evidence arises that UML will more and more be used not as a specification language but as a high level programming language. This has some advantages, as if the concepts of UML are executable, they can immediately be animated and tested, or the generated code even be used as implementation. Thus UML probably will have an implementation-oriented semantics describing this animation. (Bernhard Rumpe)
The adoption of the Precise Action Semantics for the Unified Modeling Language specification by the OMG in November of 2001. View quote
Grady Booch
Everyone wants rather to be pleasing to women and that desire is not altogether, though it is very largely, a manifestation of vanity. But one cannot aim to be pleasing to women any more than one can aim to have taste, or beauty of expression, or happiness; for these things are not specific aims which one may learn to attain; they are descriptions of the adequacy of one's living. To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly. View quote
Robert Oppenheimer
[The architecture specification covers] all functions of the machine that are observable by the program. View quote
Gerrit Blaauw
Central to both the theoretical and the empirical validity of factor models is the correct specification of the number of factors. View quote
Jushan Bai