Quotes About Software

As the population of software developers ages, they care more about the rest of their lives. Many lament wasting their twenties locked up in an office slaving over a piece of code that failed to reach market expectations and became obsolete soon after release. Work/life

Put simply, excessive defects are the biggest waste in software development

Reducing the quantity of design-in-progress boosts software quality.

Greenhopper for Jira

Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer.

God is like a computer, the more software you put in, the greater the danger that extensions will conflict.

Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.

Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.

There are no secrets on an successful software project. Both good and bad news must be able to move up and down the ptoject hierarchy without restriction.

Once open source gets good enough, competing with it would be insane.

It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would want to do with their computers.

I don't believe in government regulation of the software industry.

It's clear that other problems such as [...] the domination of business over government, science, thought, and society, are much bigger than non-free software.

Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse)

Really great blogs do not take the place of great microprocessors. Great blogs do not replace great software. Lots and lots of blogs does not replace lots and lots of sales.

The great thing about crummy software is the amount of employment it generates.

Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.

Google has the business resources, global scale and platform reach to accelerate Nest growth across hardware, software and services for the home globally.

I think it's great that people now have access to Pro Tools and other recording software at home. I've never understood how anyone could be comfortable in a recording studio

In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.

With multimedia, everything blurs. Software takes the concept of the imagination and makes it something you can edit, tweak, and transform with digital techniques. Everything becomes an edited file.

Structure is translation software for your imagination.

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.

Software sucks because users demand it to.