If you cannot grok the overall structure of a program while taking a shower, you are not ready to code it. — Richard E. Pattis 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
... with proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous, but continues to succeed. — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
Hiring people to write code to sell is not the same as hiring people to design and build durable, usable, dependable software. — Larry Constantine Copy Share Image
Find the simplest model that is not a lie is the key to better software design. — David Parnas Copy Share Image
We hope to get to the place where there are thousands of Peugeot cars on the road running nuTonomy software. — Karl Iagnemma 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
You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing. — Roy Romer Copy Share Image
I feel lucky because earlier in my career, I found what I liked to do; it's build software that you see your… — Dennis Crowley Copy Share Image
If something's expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
At heart, human beings are what we may call 'generalists,' who have the ability to adapt their internal 'software programs' to different… — Bret Weinstein Copy Share Image
Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux; that's the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don't… — Jamie Zawinski Copy Share Image
Today's leading real-world retailer, Wal-Mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabilities, which it has used to crush its competition — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
Software engineering is the establishment and use of sound engineering principles to obtain economically software that is reliable and works on real… — Friedrich L. Bauer Copy Share Image
Open source production has shown us that world-class software, like Linux and Mozilla, can be created with neither the bureaucratic structure of… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
Modern cyberspace is a deadly festering swamp, teeming with dangerous programs such as 'viruses,' 'worms,' 'Trojan horses' and 'licensed Microsoft software' that… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
A: Snowden has enough information to cause more damage to the US government in a minute alone than anyone else has ever… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
From a client perspective, I really think the work Microsoft's doing with Surface, with HoloLens, with Xbox, that stuff's absolutely essential to… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
The required techniques of effective reasoning are pretty formal, but as long as programming is done by people that don't master them,… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
When you take a look at the transition from server software to Azure, what's going on in terms of cloud infrastructure, the… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
So just to be clear, Microsoft has created a new operating system that isn't properly compatible with a best-selling, still perfectly useable… — Robert Peston Copy Share Image
I started thinking, my gosh, all this sophisticated software for measuring how Yo-Yo plays, and how he moves and this technique of… — Tod Machover Copy Share Image
Continuous Integration is a software development practice where members of a team integrate their work frequently, usually each person integrates at least… — Martin Fowler Copy Share Image
I would like to say that I have software that allows me to model worlds to a high degree of scientific plausibility.… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
Bloomberg is an overpriced legacy software system that subsidizes a money-losing media company. — Martin Shkreli Copy Share Image
The greatest risk we face in software development is that of overestimating our own knowledge. — Jim Highsmith Copy Share Image
Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor. — Barry Boehm Copy Share Image
Your "use case" should be, there's a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid? — Jamie Zawinski Copy Share Image
The best software companies in the world are the Indian companies like the Tatas, Infosys, and others. — Joe Kaeser Copy Share Image
Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent. — Miguel de Icaza Copy Share Image
It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it. — Steve McConnell Copy Share Image
If Apple ever lowers the iPod's price and develops Windows software for it, watch out: the invasion of the iPod people will… — David Pogue Copy Share Image
I don't have a huge amount of gear, but on the software side, I have a number of plug-in chains that act… — Jon Hopkins Copy Share Image
We don't think of ourselves as being perfectionists, really. To us it's more about desperately trying to have it sound more or… — Donald Fagen Copy Share Image
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… — Steve McConnell Copy Share Image
In software, the chain isn't as strong as its weakest link; it's as weak as all the weak links multiplied together. — Steve McConnell Copy Share Image
In the software business there are many enterprises for which it is not clear that science can help them; that science should… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Trying to apply formal methods to all software projects is just as bad as trying to apply code-and-fix development to all projects. — Steve McConnell Copy Share Image
Grammar Checker – A software program that is not needed by those who know grammar and virtually useless for those who don’t. — Richard Turner Copy Share Image
We seem to be the only software company for girls that is pushing science and getting away from stereotypical behavior. — Judith Love Cohen Copy Share Image