Approach Quote by Bill Gates

There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written.

— Bill Gates

“Object-oriented programming offers a sustainable way to write spaghetti code. It lets you accrete programs as a series of patches.”

— Paul Graham

Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

— Erich Gamma

“Abstraction is useful in software because it allows the programmer to: • hide irrelevant detail, and concentrate on essentials. • present a “black box”…

— Peter van der Linden

Object-oriented programming as it emerged in Simula 67 allows software structure to be based on real-world structures, and gives programmers a powerful way to…

— David Gelernter

“There are certain tips and tricks that apply at all levels of software development, ideas that are almost axiomatic, and processes that are virtually…

— Andrew Hunt

Creating a piece of software is always complicated because you're doing something new. If you just wanted something that had been done before you'd…

— Bill Gates

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

— Capers Jones

The only way to write complex software that won't fall on its face is to hold its global complexity down - to build it…

— Eric S. Raymond

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

Software is usually expected to be modified over the course of its productive life. The process of converting one correct program into a different…

— Douglas Crockford

The software industry has to become better in componentization. That's a clear focus for most of the software companies. How components look, how they…

— Hasso Plattner