Avoiding Quote by Edward Tufte

I think managers have realized that most software people are slightly brain damaged, that they're off on their own planets.

— Eugene Jarvis

It turns out that style matters in programming for the same reason that it matters in writing. It makes for better reading.

— Douglas Crockford

People tend to remember and mentally classify work according to how it looks, sometimes oblivious to the underlying intent.

— David Salle

Most efforts to approximate normal human behavior in software tend to be creepy or annoying.

— Jenna Wortham

Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields

— Bjarne Stroustrup

In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organization to operate more effectively.

— Bill Gates

The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for theirs and partly out of stereotypes that they…

— Ted Nelson

I believe that software, and in fact entire companies, should be run in a way that assumes that the sum of the talent of…

— Matt Mullenweg

One of the great enemies of design is when systems or objects become more complex than a person - or even a team of…

— Bran Ferren

To many managers, getting rid of the arrogant, undisciplined, over-paid, technology-obsessed, improperly-dressed etc. programmers would appear to be a significant added benefit

— Bjarne Stroustrup

Whatever way that we have in our head that we expect people to use a software, they'll find other interesting ways to use it…

— Dennis Crowley

A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all…

— Bill Gates