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Software Quotes by Donald Knuth
- ...One of the most important lessons, perhaps, is the fact that SOFTWARE IS HARD. From now on I shall have significantly greater respect for every…
- The designer of a new kind of system must participate fully in the implementation.
- ... the designer of a new system must not only be the implementor and the first large-scale user; the designer should also write the first…
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- Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they're intended to be used for. — David Byrne
- There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no… — Tony Hoare
- If something is expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you… — Bill Gates
- The business models in enterprise have changed pretty dramatically. A huge problem with enterprise software traditionally has been usually you sell to… — Aaron Levie
- The key idea of agile is that teams essentially manage themselves. ... It works in software, and it turns out that it… — Bruce Feiler
- It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has… — Alan Cooper
- Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing… — Ted Nelson