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Software Quotes by Steve McConnell
- It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it.
- It's better to wait for a productive programmer to become available than it is to wait for the first available programmer to become productive.
- ... programming requires more concentration than other activities. It's the reason programmers get upset about 'quick interruptions' - such interruptions are tantamount to asking a…
- The default movement on a software project should be in the direction of taking elements of the software away to make it simpler rather than…
- Testing by itself does not improve software quality. Test results are an indicator of quality, but in and of themselves, they don't improve it. Trying…
- The job of the average manager requires a shift in focus every few minutes. The job of the average software developer requires that the developer…
- Software projects fail for one of two general reasons: the project team lacks the knowledge to conduct a software project successfully, or the project team…
- In software, the chain isn't as strong as its weakest link; it's as weak as all the weak links multiplied together.
- In software, consultants sometimes tell you to buy into certain software-development methods to the exclusion of other methods. That’s unfortunate because if you buy into…
- There are no secrets on an successful software project. Both good and bad news must be able to move up and down the ptoject hierarchy…
More Software Quotes
- 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
- By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware. — Barry Schuler
- A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is… — Bill Gates