Learn from mistakes Quote by Steve McConnell

When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.

— Wietse Venema

“We sort of understood abstractly the idea that there are only two kinds of software projects: failures and future legacy horrors.”

— Peter Weinberger

There are thousands of ways to mess up or damage a software projects, and only a few ways to do them well

— Capers Jones

Every project has new mistakes that you make. What you want to avoid is making the old mistakes.

— Stephen Schwartz

The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.

— Dan Kaminsky

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

Writing system software is like planning a family.If you make a mistake you have to live with it for 20 years.

— Richard Marshall

With software products, it is usual to find that the software has major `bugs' and does not work reliably for some users... The lay…

— David Parnas

I think projects often fail because people do not have a clear understanding at the start what they are trying to deliver.

— Martin Cooper

Software−related accidents are usually caused by flawed requirements.

— Nancy Leveson

“Software is like a science. We show correctness by failing to prove incorrectness, despite our best efforts.”

— Robert C Martin

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.

— Anonymous