Controlled Quote by Steve McConnell

Software, by being comprehensive, can save costs by avoiding add-on pieces of software. We can save money in terms of speed of development or…

— Bill Gates

Software engineering economics.

— Barry Boehm

In software, we rarely have meaningful requirements. Even if we do, the only measure of success that matters is whether our solution solves the…

— Jeff Atwood

Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities.

— David Heinemeier Hansson

“In such a climate, the more appropriate way to think of software is as an organizational asset: nothing more and nothing less. Looking at…

— Stephen O’Grady

A typical software project can present more opportunities to learn from mistakes than some people get in a lifetime.

— Steve McConnell

For us, the real goal is to make it so that the software ecosystem is as healthy as possible.

— James Gosling

People are building the software and so having the pieces be such that a single person understands all the tradeoffs and everything that's going…

— Bill Gates

In short, software is eating the world

— Marc Andreessen

Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering.

— Bill Gates

If you want to do something that's going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers…

— Jamie Zawinski

A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want.

— Niklaus Wirth