Software Quotes

598 quotes by 321 authors

Learning research tells us that the time lag from experiment to feedback is critical ... — Kent Beck
We don't think of ourselves as being perfectionists, really. To us it's more about desperately trying to have it sound more or less OK. — Donald Fagen
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant. — Edmund Burke
Inspiration comes from the act of writing. — Steve Doll
... as a slow-witted human being I have a very small head and I had better learn to live with it and to respect my… — Edsger Dijkstra
To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that. — Jamie Zawinski
Java development without a little heresy would be a dull place, and a dangerous one. — Bruce Tate
The hardest part of design ... is keeping features out. — Donald A. Norman
A simple [writing] style is the result of very hard work. — William Zinsser
The tragedy of our time is that we've got it backwards, we've learned to love techniques and use people. — Herb Kelleher
Systems programmers are the high priests of a low cult. — Bob Barton
The general problem with ambitious systems is complexity. [...] it is important to emphasize the value of simplicity and elegance, for complexity has a way… — Fernando J. Corbato
Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated. — Edsger Dijkstra
Adding last-minute features, whether in response to competitive pressure, as a developer's pet feature, or on the whim of management, causes more bugs in software… — John Robbins
The job of the average manager requires a shift in focus every few minutes. The job of the average software developer requires that the developer… — Steve McConnell
Software projects fail for one of two general reasons: the project team lacks the knowledge to conduct a software project successfully, or the project team… — Steve McConnell
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
Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor. — Barry Boehm
"(Big name research firm) says our market will be $50 billion in 2010." Every entrepreneur has a few slides about how the market potential for… — Guy Kawasaki
Software: These programs give instruction to the CPU, which processes billions of tiny facts called bytes, and within a fraction of a second it sends… — Dave Barry

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