Software Development Quotes

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  • When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.

    "The Universal Book of Mathematics". Book by David Darling, p. 34, November 8, 2004.
  • My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.

  • Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.

  • The task of the software development team is to engineer the illusion of simplicity.

    Team   Simplicity   Tasks  
    Grady Booch, Robert Maksimchuk, Michael Engle, Jim Conallen, Kelli Houston (2007). “Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications”, p.40, Pearson Education
  • Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings.

  • After graduation, I took a job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in software development. I don't think I was there more than a month.

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

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

    Alistair Cockburn (2006). “Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game”, p.54, Pearson Education
  • To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.

  • Inadequate use of usability engineering methods in software development projects have been estimated to cost the US economy about $30 billion per year in lost productivity.

  • In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.

    Witty   Humorous   Simple  
    "The Emperor's Old Clothes". Communications of the ACM 24 (2), (pp. 75-83), February 1981.
  • Imagine the disincentive to software development if after months of work another company could come along and copy your work and market it under its own name...without legal restraints to such copying, companies like Apple could not afford to advance the state of the art.

    Art   Names   Apples  
  • The greatest risk we face in software development is that of overestimating our own knowledge.

    Jim Highsmith (2013). “Adaptive Software Development: A Collaborative Approach to Managing Complex Systems”, p.14, Addison-Wesley
  • I would definitely like to work at Microsoft, since software development and exploring new technologies has always been my passion, and Microsoft is best when it comes to next-generation software technologies.

    Source: arfakarim.wordpress.com
  • The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.

    Bjarne Stroustrup (2000). “The C++ Programming Language”, Addison-Wesley Professional
  • Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law

    Godel, Escher, Bach ch. 5 (1979)
  • Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor. Particularly on large projects, each of the following mismanagement actions has often been responsible for doubling software development costs.

  • Linux is only free if your time has no value.

    Interview for themes.org, www.jwz.org. June 1998.
  • If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

    Funny   Debugging   Bugs  
  • Continuous Integration is a software development practice where members of a team integrate their work frequently, usually each person integrates at least daily - leading to multiple integrations per day. Each integration is verified by an automated build (including test) to detect integration errors as quickly as possible. Many teams find that this approach leads to significantly reduced integration problems and allows a team to develop cohesive software more rapidly.

    Team   Errors   Practice  
    "Continuous Integration". www.martinfowler.com. May 01, 2006.
  • 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 job.

    Jobs   Thinking   Might  
    Alan Cooper (1999). “The Inmates are Running the Asylum”, Sams Publishing
  • Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit.

    Sports   Men   Years  
    Neal Stephenson (2003). “Snow Crash”, p.56, Spectra
  • Software development takes immense intellectual effort. Even the best programmers can rarely sustain that level of effort for more than a few hours a day. Beyond that, they need to rest their brains a bit, which is why they always seem to be surfing the Internet or playing games when you barge in on them.

  • When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code.

  • Nine people can't make a baby in a month.

    Baby   People   Nine  
  • No matter how slick the demo is in rehearsal, when you do it in front of a live audience the probability of a flawless presentation is inversely proportional to the number of people watching, raised to the power of the amount of money involved.

    "The myth of the digital lifestyle" by Mark Gibbs, www.networkworld.com. January 9, 2006.
  • Design adds value faster than it adds cost.

    Design   Coders   Add  
  • When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

  • The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late.

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