Activity Quote by Niklaus Wirth

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

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

Software is the language of automation.

— Jensen Huang

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

Programming is an explanatory activity.

— Roman Harper

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

We are still in the infancy of naming what is really happening on software development projects.

— Alistair Cockburn

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

— Bjarne Stroustrup

Software work is the most complex that humanity has ever undertaken.

— Fred Brooks

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

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

— Jesse James Garrett

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

— Bjarne Stroustrup