Activity Quote by Niklaus Wirth Download Open image “Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings.” — Niklaus Wirth ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Activity Development Growth Human beings Software Software development
A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Early on, when software was developed by computer scientists, just people working with computers, people passed around software because that was how you got… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We are still in the infancy of naming what is really happening on software development projects. — Alistair Cockburn Copy Share Image
The most fundamental problem in software development is complexity. There is only one basic way of dealing with complexity: divide and conquer — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring. — Jesse James Garrett Copy Share Image
The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build. — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. (Or, sometimes known by] Grove [the head of Intel] giveth and Gates [the head of Microsoft]… — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
Usually its users discover sooner or later that their program does not deliver all the desired results, or worse, that the results requested were… — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
Our ultimate goal is extensible programming. By this, we mean the construction of hierarchies of modules, each module adding new functionality to the system. — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
During the process of stepwise refinement, a notation which is natural to the problem in hand should be used as long as possible. — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become… — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision. — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, I consider OOP as an aspect of programming in the large; that is, as an aspect that logically follows programming in the small… — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever. — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could… — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
And also I think the rise of other, you could say, destinations for international jihadis mean that Pakistan isn't necessarily the place where people… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There were books everywhere in my house. Books were very present. I just loved books. I never understood reading as anything but a pleasurable… — Lisa Lucas Copy Share Image
For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
For the longest time, neuroscientists were forced to be passive observers of brain activity. — Gero Miesenbock Copy Share Image
Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity. — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Once an activity has been socialized, it is impossible to point out, by concrete example, how men in a free market could better conduct… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
