Software Quotes

598 quotes by 321 authors

What would the world be like if you had to develop a power yourself before you could use it? Just as a silly example: How… — John C. Wright
Structure is translation software for your imagination. — James Scott Bell
Second law: The complexity barrier. Software complexity (and therefore that of bugs) grows to the limits of our ability to manage that complexity. — Boris Beizer
Software never was perfect and won't get perfect. But is that a license to create garbage? The missing ingredient is our reluctance to quantify quality. — Boris Beizer
If you need to visualize the soul, think of it as a cross between a wolf howl, a photon and a dribble of dark molasses.… — Tom Robbins
Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields — Bjarne Stroustrup
The most fundamental problem in software development is complexity. There is only one basic way of dealing with complexity: divide and conquer — Bjarne Stroustrup
In software, consultants sometimes tell you to buy into certain software-development methods to the exclusion of other methods. Thatâ€™s unfortunate because if you buy into… — Steve McConnell
It's called 'reading'.Â It's how people install new software into their brains. — Randy Glasbergen
There are no secrets on an successful software project. Both good and bad news must be able to move up and down the ptoject hierarchy… — Steve McConnell
The greatest risk we face in software development is that of overestimating our own knowledge. — Jim Highsmith
It is not just software glitches and corrupted memory cards that should be on the minds of election officials. Hackers pose another very real problem… — Bob Barr
Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer. — Fred Brooks
We're focused on providing innovations in software, driving the continuous improvement for a much better experience, and there's a lot going on here that speaks… — Bill Gates
While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers. — Bill Gates
There is this thing called the GPL (Gnu Public Licence), which we disagree with... nobody can ever improve the software. — Bill Gates
All of us who attended the meeting - including Microsoft - unanimously agreed that unilaterally extending the Java programming language would hurt compatibility among Java… — James Gosling
You know, most people in the open-source world who use open-source software don't actually do builds themselves - those people just download the binaries. And… — James Gosling
When writing gateway software of any kind, take pains to disturb the data stream as little as possible - and never throw away information unless… — Eric S. Raymond
Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. — Niklaus Wirth

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