Believe Quote by Fred Brooks

The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one. Hence, descriptions of a software entity that abstract away its complexity often…

— Fred Brooks

“I believe the hard part of building software to be the specification, design, and testing of this conceptual construct, not the labor of representing…

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr

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

— Douglas Crockford

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

The structure of a software system provides the ecology in which code is born, matures, and dies. A well-designed habitat allows for the successful…

— Richard E. Pattis

“unlike the building industry, the software development industry lacks a standard, consistent way to think about, describe and visually communicate software architecture”

— Simon Brown

“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

The hardest part of the software task is arriving at a complete and consistent specification, and much of the essence of building a program…

— Fred Brooks

“I conclude that there are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously…

— C.A.R. Hoare

Object-oriented programming as it emerged in Simula 67 allows software structure to be based on real-world structures, and gives programmers a powerful way to…

— David Gelernter

The critical thing in developing software is not the program, it's the design. It is translating understanding of user needs into something that can…

— Mitch Kapor

Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings.

— Niklaus Wirth