Damage Quote by Capers Jones

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

— Steve McConnell

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

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

“We sort of understood abstractly the idea that there are only two kinds of software projects: failures and future legacy horrors.”

— Peter Weinberger

With a lot of projects, you never know if it's going to be executed properly. And also, you never know if people are going…

— David Harbour

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

— Bjarne Stroustrup

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

The biggest fragility in a project is often just the inability to be able to explain to people why you are doing it, and…

— Sebastian Coe

Great software has seemingly limitless potential to solve human problems - and it can spread around the world in the blink of an eye.…

— Craig Federighi

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

— Wietse Venema

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

— Bill Gates