Code Quote by Steve McConnell

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 single project deserves a different approach.

— Lorne Balfe

“There are certain tips and tricks that apply at all levels of software development, ideas that are almost axiomatic, and processes that are virtually…

— Andrew Hunt

To apply general tools to specific problems is to fail.

— Michael Crichton

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

— Steve McConnell

In software, consultants sometimes tell you to buy into certain software-development methods to the exclusion of other methods. That’s unfortunate because if you buy…

— Steve McConnell

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

— Peter Weinberger

Never in the annals of software engineering was so much owed by so many to so few lines of code

— Martin Fowler

To treat programming scientifically, it must be possible to specify the required properties of programs precisely. Formality is certainly not an end in itself.…

— Jim Horning

One principle problem of educating software engineers is that they will not use a new method until they believe it works and, more importantly,…

— Watts Humphrey

Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.

— Wietse Venema

The methodologies and best practices used to develop software can be applied successfully to any challenge in life.

— Walter O'Brien