Software Design Quotes

43 quotes by 37 authors

The general problem with ambitious systems is complexity. [...] it is important to emphasize the value of simplicity and elegance, for complexity has a way… — Fernando J. Corbato
Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated. — Edsger Dijkstra
The future belongs to neither the conduit or content players, but those who control the filtering, searching and sense-making tools we will rely on to… — Paul Saffo
If you want a language that tries to lock up all the sharp objects and fire-making implements, use Pascal or Ada: the Nerf languages, harmless… — Scott Fahlman
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty-a beauty cold and austere ... yet sublimely pure and capable of stern perfection such as… — Bertrand Russell
Good work is always done in defiance of management. — Bob Woodward
We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
...you can look forward to reading - I swear this is true - Microsoft Bob for Dummies. — Josh Quittner
A Wired reader told me once, Get a life, which I read from the back of a yacht in the Aegean, while eating fresh sea… — Nicholas Negroponte
The Very Big Stupid is a thing which breeds by eating The Future. Have you seen it? It sometimes disguises itself as a good-looking quarterly… — Frank Zappa
Some cynical people think that every activity must revolve around the mighty dollar, and that anyone saying otherwise is just attempting to delude the public.… — John Carmack
As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it. — Ad Reinhardt
...your Web browser is Ronald Reagan. — Neal Stephenson
One of the great skills in using any language is knowing what not to use, what not to say. There's that simplicity thing again. — Ron Jeffries
Crappy old OSes have value in the basically negative sense that changing to new ones makes us wish we'd never been born. — Neal Stephenson
...wisdom is in large part the knowledge of how to avoid doing dumb things, and thus grows globally as a function of the published inventory… — Tim Bray
Find the simplest model that is not a lie is the key to better software design. — David Parnas
Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly… — Bill Gates
Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn… — Jaron Lanier
The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. — Geoffrey Chaucer

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