Built Quote by Fred Brooks

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

The nature of design is to synthesize disparate perspectives and create a richer end product through collaboration and iteration.

— Jens Martin Skibsted

People are building the software and so having the pieces be such that a single person understands all the tradeoffs and everything that's going…

— Bill Gates

I am a design chauvinist. I believe that good design is magical and not to be lightly tinkered with. The difference between a great…

— Ted Nelson

The belief that complex systems require armies of designers and programmers is wrong. A system that is not understood in its entirety, or at…

— Niklaus Wirth

My computer is a very complex gadget and it was designed by many designers, so why must the universe have only a single designer…

— Richard Dawkins

One can expect the human race to continue attempting systems just within or just beyond our reach; and software systems are perhaps the most…

— Fred Brooks

It is a real service to humanity and the world to be a good programmer, particularly if you design great products. You make is…

— Frederick Lenz

Elegance? It may seem odd to non-scientists, but there is an aesthetic in software as there is in every other area of intellectual endeavour.…

— John Naughton

“Therefore the most important function that software builders do for their clients is the iterative extraction and refinement of the product requirements. For the…

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr

I love software, because if you can imagine something, you can build it.

— Ray Ozzie

There is no one "root of all evil" in software development. Design is hard in many ways. People tend to underestimate the intellectual and…

— Bjarne Stroustrup