Development is maintenance.

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own…

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Systems program building is an entropy-decreasing process, hence inherently metastable. Program maintenance is an entropy-increasing process, and even its most skillful execution only delays…

— Anonymous

Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance.

— Jim Horning

Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering…

— William J. Clinton

Sun's role in the grand scheme of development is to work on the runtime environment and the APIs. The tools we produce are much…

— John Fowler

Responsible Development shares many practices with XP but the roots are different. Responsible Development's values are honesty, transparency, accountability and responsibility. These lead me…

— Kent Beck

I did software development for a while, and I also spent several years directing a nonprofit in San Francisco that did computer education for…

— David Autor

Shipping first time code is like going into debt. A little debt speeds development so long as it is paid back promptly with a…

— Ward Cunningham

“If everyday you keep getting better, you end up being the best.”

— Amit Kalantri

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a…

— Aldous Huxley

Entrepreneurship is the cornerstone to African development and the key to local value creation in Africa. I am determined to ensure that Africa's next…

— Tony Elumelu

Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

— Quentin Crisp

“Creativity is key to productivity and prosperity.”

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Every culture, if its natural development is not too much affected by political restrictions, experiences a perpetual renewal of the formative urge, and out…

— Rudolf Rocker

We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's…

— Park Geun-hye