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• Object-oriented programming as it emerged in Simula 67 allows software structure to be based on real-world structures, and gives programmers a powerful way to simplify the design and construction of complex programs.

  David Gelernter

  Powerful, Real, Learning

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• To treat programming scientifically, it must be possible to specify the required properties of programs precisely. Formality is certainly not an end in itself. The importance of formal specifications must ultimately rest in their utility -in whether or not they are used to improve the quality of software or to reduce the cost of producing and maintaining software.

  Jim Horning

  Learning, Quality, Cost

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• The software is where the magic is. If you're going to have all this power be simple enough, appealing enough and cool enough, it's going to be because the software is right.

  Bill Gates

  Simple, Magic, Enough

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• 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.

  Larry Ellison

  Doe, Really Great, Microprocessor

  "Special Report: Can That Guy in Ironman 2 Whip IBM in Real Life?". www.reuters.com. May 13, 2010.

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• Of course, I have my own limits as to how much game software I can take care of at any one time.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Games, Care, Limits

  "Q&A: Shigeru Miyamoto Looks Into Nintendo's Future". Interview with Chris Kohler, www.wired.com. December 13, 2011.

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• There is a constant need for new systems and new software.

  Marc Andreessen

  Needs, Constant

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• Google’s objective is to organize the world’s information and to make it accessible. Unicode plays a central role in this effort because it is the principal means by which content in every language can be represented in a form that can be processed by software. As Unicode extends its coverage of the world’s languages, it helps Google accomplish its mission.

  Vinton Cerf

  Mean, Play, Effort

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• GNU, which stands for Gnu's Not Unix, is the name for the complete Unix-compatible software system which I am writing so that I can give it away free to everyone who can use it.

  Richard Stallman

  Writing, Names, Giving

  Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.27, Lulu.com

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• You know, if you were *really* going to starve, you'd be justified in writing proprietary software.

  Richard Stallman

  Writing, Justified, Knows

  Richard M. Stallman's speech "Free Software: Freedom and Cooperation", New York University in New York, New York, www.gnu.org. May 29, 2001.

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• I figure that since proprietary software developers use copyright to stop us from sharing, we cooperators can use copyright to give other cooperators an advantage of their own: they can use our code.

  Richard Stallman

  Giving, Use, Advantage

  Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.75, Lulu.com

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• The American Dream is one of the greatest ideas in the history of human achievement . . . It thrives today in an age when its core components of freedom and opportunity are open to more Americans than ever before. It holds a real, identifiable place in the American heart and mind, and it informs the aspirations of everyone from farmers to software developers, from detectives to bankers, from soldiers to social workers . . . It defines us as a people, even as we add to its meaning with each new chapter in our national experience and our individual actions.

  Dan Rather

  Dream, Real, Heart

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• Grammar Checker – A software program that is not needed by those who know grammar and virtually useless for those who don’t.

  Richard Turner

  Useless, Program, Grammar

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• Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Thinking, Design

  'Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol' (1777) p. 59

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• Inspiration comes from the act of writing.

  Steve Doll

  Inspiration, Writing, Design

  "I find inspiration through writing". www.swissinfo.ch. July 6, 2008.

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• ... as a slow-witted human being I have a very small head and I had better learn to live with it and to respect my limitations and give them full credit, rather than to try to ignore them, for the latter vain effort will be punished by failure.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Giving, Design, Effort

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• To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that.

  Jamie Zawinski

  Design, Nails, Looks

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• Java development without a little heresy would be a dull place, and a dangerous one.

  Bruce Tate

  Design, Would Be, Development

  Bruce Tate, Justin Gehtland (2004). “Better, Faster, Lighter Java”, p.31, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• The hardest part of design ... is keeping features out.

  Donald A. Norman

  Design, Hardest, Features

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• A simple [writing] style is the result of very hard work.

  William Zinsser

  Hard Work, Writing, Simple

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• The tragedy of our time is that we've got it backwards, we've learned to love techniques and use people.

  Herb Kelleher

  People, Design, Tragedy

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• Systems programmers are the high priests of a low cult.

  Bob Barton

  Design, Lows, Priests

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• The general problem with ambitious systems is complexity. [...] it is important to emphasize the value of simplicity and elegance, for complexity has a way of compounding difficulties.

  Fernando J. Corbato

  Simplicity, Design, Important

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• Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Hard Work, Discipline, Simplicity

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• Adding last-minute features, whether in response to competitive pressure, as a developer's pet feature, or on the whim of management, causes more bugs in software than almost anything else.

  John Robbins

  Pet, Requirements, Lasts

  John Robbins (2000). “Debugging Applications: Microsoft”

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• The job of the average manager requires a shift in focus every few minutes. The job of the average software developer requires that the developer not shift focus more often than every few hours.

  Steve McConnell

  Teamwork, Jobs, Average

  Steve McConnell (1997). “Software Project Survival Guide”, p.45, Microsoft Press

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