Adverse Quote by Wietse Venema

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

— Wietse Venema

Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting.

— Wietse Venema

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

— Richard Marshall

Writing non-free software is not an ethically legitimate activity, so if people who do this run into trouble, that's good! All businesses based on…

— Richard Stallman

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

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

— Dan Kaminsky

Software−related accidents are usually caused by flawed requirements.

— Nancy Leveson

Portability is for people who cannot write new programs

— Linus Torvalds

Writing software is a very intense, very personal thing. You have to have time to work your way through it, to understand it. Then…

— Vint Cerf

Defect-free software does not exist.

— Wietse Venema

If something's expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to…

— Bill Gates

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

— Anonymous