Abstract Quote by Fred Brooks

The essence of a software entity is a construct of interlocking concepts. I believe the hard part of building software to be the specification,…

— Fred Brooks

The most fundamental problem in software development is complexity. There is only one basic way of dealing with complexity: divide and conquer

— Bjarne Stroustrup

“Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it. Our applications are complex because we are ambitious to use our computers in ever…

— C.A.R. Hoare

The structure of software systems tend to reflect the structure of the organization that produce them.

— Douglas Crockford

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.

— Brian Kernighan

Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“Digital computers are themselves more complex than most things people build; they have very large numbers of states. This makes conceiving, describing, and testing…

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr

“You need simplicity to create complexity”

— Tarryn Fisher

Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities.

— David Heinemeier Hansson

Complexity control is the central problem of writing software in the real world

— Eric S. Raymond

Simplicity and complexity need each other.

— John Maeda

“Complexity is evidence of design,”

— Mark Goodwin