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Software Quotes by Niklaus Wirth
- 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…
- A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want.
- Prolific programmers contribute to certain disaster.
- Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling -- the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration.
- Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.
- I am convinced that there is a need for high quality software, and the time will come when it will be recognized that it is…
- Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. (Or, sometimes known by] Grove [the head of Intel] giveth and Gates [the head of Microsoft] taketh…
- Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings.
- Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.
- Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence.
- Yet, I am convinced that there is a need for high quality software, and the time will come when it will be recognized that it…
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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