... they will benefit from a breadth of experiences

"The ideal engineer is a composite … he is not a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a sociologist, or a writer; but he may use the knowledge and techniques of any or all of these disciplines in solving engineering problems."

—N. W. Dougherty

... that if debugging is the process of removing bugs... ;)

"If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in."

- Edsger Dijkstra

... that change doesn't stop

"There is nothing permanent except change."

—Heraclitus

... you can't fully estimate from just a description of what is wanted

"You cannot write a description of software you want and then have someone develop it on a fixed schedule for a fixed price."

- Robert Martin

... that complexity hides deficiencies

"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so
simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it
so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."

—C.A.R. Hoare

... that they must be involved in implementation

"The designer of a new kind of system must participate fully in the implementation."

"… the designer of a new system must not only be the implementor and the first large-scale user; the designer should also write the first user manual. … If I had not participated fully in all these activities, literally hundreds of improvements would never have been made, because I would never have thought of them or perceived why they were important."

—Donald E. Knuth

... that design and programming are human activities

"Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost."

—Bjarne Stroustrup