Building Quote by Jesse James Garrett

Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings.

— Niklaus Wirth

I'm very much a technical person.

— Ashley Wagner

The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build.

— 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

Technical know-how of the experts must be transformed into practical do-how of the people.

— Y. C. James Yen

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

Computer science doesn't know how to build complex systems that work reliably. This has been a well-understood problem since the very beginning of programmable…

— Matt Blaze

Engineers have a certain mindset of how they approach problem solving. That's basically what engineers are: problem solvers. You identify the problem. Then you…

— Trevor Bauer

A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing…

— Garrett Hardin

The entire idea of building a series of systems in a business is simply this - to create the tools that allow you, as…

— Michael Gerber

Hard systems are everything we're using right now - computers, phones, planes, the clothes you're wearing, the room you're in. Everything there involves 100%…

— Allan Savory

“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