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The Software Artists: Citations for Part Three

Citations For the section “Practicing, Rehearsing,
and Performing Software”

Programmer, poet and guitarist Richard Gabriel's quote is from
his proposal for a Master of Fine Arts in Software:
http://www.dreamsongs.com/MFASoftware.html

Apple CEO Steve Jobs' quote is widely noted, but is documented
in context by Andy Hertzfeld here:
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Pirate_Flag.txt

The practice/rehearse/perform rubric was first presented on the
author's blog in September 2007:
http://chrismcmahonsblog.blogspot.com/2007/09/become-better-software-artist.html

The title of this paper comes from the author's blog post of May
2007 in response to Jonathan Kohl's recommendation of theater
and musical experience for software testing:
http://chrismcmahonsblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/here-come-software-artists.html

A performance by Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie available on
YouTube was a strong influence on this paper, cited in response
to another of Brian Marick's thoughtful blog posts:
http://chrismcmahonsblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/example-of-analogy-monks-vs-music.html

Luke Closs of Socialtext is a performing juggler and an excellent
agile developer. His talk “Juggling for Geeks” is a fine
performance: http://revver.com/video/317034/juggling-for-geeks-alpha/

The author performed the jazz standard “These Foolish Things”
on a $25.00 green ukulele at the Developer-Tester/Tester-
Developer Summit at Google in Mountain View in February
2007, to demonstrate (as good software testers know) that is is
possible to produce excellent results even with inferior tools.
http://googletesting.blogspot.com/2007/03/developer-testertester-developer-summit.html