The most fundamental problem in software development is complexity. There is only one basic way of dealing with complexity: divide and conquer — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
One can expect the human race to continue attempting systems just within or just beyond our reach; and software systems are perhaps… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
I set writing aside when I went into theater, and then I set theater aside and subsequently had about a 25-year career… — David Wroblewski Copy Share Image
A little retrospection shows that although many fine, useful software systems have been designed by committees and built as part of multipart… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Good engineering is characterized by gradual, stepwise refinement of products that yields increased performance under given constraints and with given resources. — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
I figure that since proprietary software developers use copyright to stop us from sharing, we cooperators can use copyright to give other… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
Indian software engineers are the best in the world; even in Silicon Valley, the best software engineers are Indians. — Masayoshi Son Copy Share Image
In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
If an innovative piece of software comes along, Microsoft copies it and makes it part of Windows. This is not innovation; this… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
I love software, because if you can imagine something, you can build it. — Ray Ozzie Copy Share Image
Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria. — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
Corporations have been killing the risk-taking and exploration that makes software great. They have tried to rip the soul out of development. — Brian Behlendorf Copy Share Image
That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers. — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
I am involved in the creation of software, and I'm also in the music business. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Finding information is either a software question or a question of how much information is online. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I like my flight sims because I can set up a very robust joystick setup and my head tracking software. — Thomas Middleditch Copy Share Image
Wit and puns aren't just decor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software,… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build the most important function that software builders… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
The most important people is to pick people who like to write software and who are good at... good developers like working… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Releasing Linux versions has always been a matter of higher code quality, good software architecture, and technical interest for the platform. — Timothee Besset Copy Share Image
Impute People DO judge a book by its cover. We may have the best product, the highest quality, the most useful software… — Mike Markkula Copy Share Image
We can't ever forget that the Internet now is just a staid utility. The exciting platforms are software applications that are very,… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
