Computer Quote by Friedrich L. Bauer

Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.

— Jamie Zawinski

Software engineering is not about right and wrong but only better and worse

— Ellen Ullman

Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering…

— William J. Clinton

Programming is much much harder than doing mathematics.

— Doron Zeilberger

Engineering is easy - it's the people problems that are hard.

— Temple Grandin

Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it.... If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code our programs,…

— Tony Hoare

Software is definitely engineering. It's different in that we take on novel tasks every time. It's not like building a certain bridge that is…

— Bill Gates

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

— Bjarne Stroustrup

It's harder than you might think to squander millions of dollars, but a flawed software development process is a tool well suited to the…

— Alan Cooper

Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical…

— Niklaus Wirth

Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.

— Edsger Dijkstra