Software engineering is the establishment and use of sound…

Sometimes when it comes to music, effects or sound engineering, it is difficult to achieve what you want within a fixed time frame.

— Vijay Antony

Software Engineering is that part of Computer Science which is too difficult for the Computer Scientist.

— Friedrich L. Bauer

“However, a real implementation may still have to include code to handle the case where something happens that was assumed to be impossible, even…

— Martin Kleppmann

It's a curious thing about our industry: not only do we not learn from our mistakes, we also don't learn from our successes.

— Keith Braithwaite

Nine people can't make a baby in a month.

— Fred Brooks

It's hard enough to find an error in your code when you're looking for it; it's even harder when you've assumed your code is…

— Steve McConnell

Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software…

— Anonymous

Product quality has almost nothing to do with defects or their lack.

— Tom DeMarco

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

The first step toward the management of disease was replacement of demon theories and humours theories by the germ theory. That very step, the…

— Fred Brooks

If you can't test it, don't build it. If you don't test it, rip it out.

— Boris Beizer

The job of the average manager requires a shift in focus every few minutes. The job of the average software developer requires that the…

— Steve McConnell

Building on our successful partnership, we can now bring together the best of Microsoft's software engineering with the best of Nokia's product engineering, award-winning…

— Stephen Elop

If you think your management doesn't know what it's doing or that your organisation turns out low-quality software crap that embarrasses you, then leave.

— Edward Yourdon

... programming requires more concentration than other activities. It's the reason programmers get upset about 'quick interruptions' - such interruptions are tantamount to asking…

— Steve McConnell