Software Quotes

598 quotes by 321 authors

In order for us to deliver this we have to integrate the big-screen capability, the PC capability, and the Internet experience. This is a combination… — Paul Otellini
I don't think I've ever seen a piece of commercial software where the next version is simpler rather than more complex. — Walter Bender
Complexity control is the central problem of writing software in the real world — Eric S. Raymond
Software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry — Eric S. Raymond
A software system is transparent when you can look at it and immediately see what is going on. It is simple when what is going… — Eric S. Raymond
The only way to write complex software that won't fall on its face is to hold its global complexity down - to build it out… — Eric S. Raymond
Every good work of software starts by scratching a developers personal itch. — Eric S. Raymond
Asked about the fact that Apple's iTunes software for Windows computers was extremely popular, Jobs joked, 'It's like giving a glass of ice water to… — Walter Isaacson
We also had good software in the key categories and more focus on the gameplaying capability, so more of the marketing effort was targeted at… — Trip Hawkins
Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software — Erich Gamma
Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation. — Marc Andreessen
Software is like sex: It's better when it's free. — Linus Torvalds
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better… — Rick Cook
This is the same problem I have with digital photography. The potential is always remarkable. But the medium never settles. Each year there is a… — Alec Soth
The best way to get a project done faster is to start sooner — Jim Highsmith
Even the best planning is not so omniscient as to get it right the first time. — Fred Brooks
Plan to throw one (implementation) away; you will, anyhow. — Fred Brooks
The belief that complex systems require armies of designers and programmers is wrong. A system that is not understood in its entirety, or at least… — Niklaus Wirth
A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want. — Niklaus Wirth
Prolific programmers contribute to certain disaster. — Niklaus Wirth

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