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Software Quotes by Edsger Dijkstra
- If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
- Please don't fall into the trap of believing that I am terribly dogmatical about [the goto statement]. I have the uncomfortable feeling that others are…
- ... 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…
- Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.
- … what society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil. Of course, the snake oil has the most impressive names — otherwise you would be selling…
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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
- Continuous Integration is a software development practice where members of a team integrate their work frequently, usually each person integrates at least… — Martin Fowler
- 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
- By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware. — Barry Schuler