Failure Quote by Chris Sims

With software products, it is usual to find that the software has major `bugs' and does not work reliably for some users... The lay…

— David Parnas

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.

— Anonymous

We now know that something between 85 and 90 percent of most software product features are unwanted and unneeded by customers. That is an…

— Steve Blank

A typical software project can present more opportunities to learn from mistakes than some people get in a lifetime.

— Steve McConnell

In software, we rarely have meaningful requirements. Even if we do, the only measure of success that matters is whether our solution solves the…

— Jeff Atwood

The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.

— Dan Kaminsky

“It seems to be common, judging from the number of incidents and accidents that have resulted, for software designers to forget that the world…

— Nancy G. Leveson

“Let’s say a million users use an application. And one of the most used features is no longer usable because of the buggy code.…

— Ramakrishna Reddy

“We sort of understood abstractly the idea that there are only two kinds of software projects: failures and future legacy horrors.”

— Peter Weinberger

“Continually adding features to software turns out to be equally unsustainable.”

— Giles Colborne

Successful software always gets changed.

— Fred Brooks

Software as an asset isn't stable over time; it needs to be maintained.

— Brian Behlendorf