Development Quote by Alan Cooper

A typical software project can present more opportunities to learn from mistakes than some people get in a lifetime.

— Steve McConnell

There are thousands of ways to mess up or damage a software projects, and only a few ways to do them well

— Capers Jones

Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor.

— Barry Boehm

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

— Friedrich L. Bauer

Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.

— Wietse Venema

There are a variety of techniques for breaking software down into pieces and making software development more efficient. Many of these techniques have been…

— Bill Gates

No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult

— Marc Andreessen

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

The most fundamental problem in software development is complexity. There is only one basic way of dealing with complexity: divide and conquer

— Bjarne Stroustrup

Inadequate use of usability engineering methods in software development projects have been estimated to cost the US economy about $30 billion per year in…

— Jakob Nielsen

It's difficult for any single company to develop all the applications and services.

— Ma Huateng

Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor. Particularly on large projects, each of the following mismanagement actions has often…

— Barry Boehm