Approach Quote by Niklaus Wirth

“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

“Remember that code is really the language in which we ultimately express the requirements. We may create languages that are closer to the requirements.…

— Robert C. Martin

My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters.

— Bram Cohen

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

Great software has seemingly limitless potential to solve human problems - and it can spread around the world in the blink of an eye.…

— Craig Federighi

Some software is actually pretty good, by any standard. Think of the Mars Rovers, Google, and the Human Genome Project. Now, that's quality software!

— Bjarne Stroustrup

High-quality software is not expensive. High-quality software is faster and cheaper to build and maintain than low-quality software, from initial development all the way…

— Capers Jones

However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe -…

— Wietse Venema

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity,…

— Alan Kay

One can expect the human race to continue attempting systems just within or just beyond our reach; and software systems are perhaps the most…

— Fred Brooks

The finest pieces of software are those where one individual has a complete sense of exactly how the program works. To have that, you…

— Bill Gates

The greatest single programming language ever designed

— Alan Kay