Being nice Quote by Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Defect-free software does not exist.

— Wietse Venema

Software−related accidents are usually caused by flawed requirements.

— Nancy Leveson

With software products, it is usual to find that the software has major `bugs' and does not work reliably for some users... The lay…

— David Parnas

“Writing and repairing software generally takes far more time and is far more expensive than initially anticipated. “Every feature that is added and every…

— Thomas Homer-Dixon

When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.

— Wietse Venema

From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.

— Anonymous

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

— Steve McConnell

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.

— Anonymous

Microsoft is always two years away from failure.

— Bill Gates

“It is a paradox that the economic value of software is falling even as its strategic value rises, and paradoxes are by definition challenging…

— Stephen O’Grady

With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.

— Adam Osborne

It's harder than you might think to squander millions of dollars, but a flawed software development process is a tool well suited to the…

— Alan Cooper