Building Quote by Fred Brooks

The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build the most important function that software builders do for…

— Fred Brooks

The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.

— Bjarne Stroustrup

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

— Bjarne Stroustrup

“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

“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 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

Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.

— Jesse James Garrett

“I conclude there are two ways of constructing software design: one way is to make it so simple there are obviously no deficiencies, and…

— Tony Hoare

The hardest part of design ... is keeping features out.

— Donald A. Norman

“IT historically goes for perfection. Many times there is the thinking that unless every business requirement, function or feature is implemented the solution will…

— Randy A. Steinberg