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Software Quotes by Eric S. Raymond
- Complexity control is the central problem of writing software in the real world
- Software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry
- 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…
- 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…
- Every good work of software starts by scratching a developers personal itch.
- If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for…
- When writing gateway software of any kind, take pains to disturb the data stream as little as possible - and never throw away information unless…
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- 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
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- 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