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• The only way to write complex software that won't fall on its face is to hold its global complexity down - to build it out of simple pieces connected by well-defined interfaces, so that most problems are local and you can have some hope of fixing or optimizing a part without breaking the whole

  Eric S. Raymond

  Fall, Writing, Simple

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• Every good work of software starts by scratching a developers personal itch.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Good Work, Programming, Very Good

  Eric S. Raymond (2001). “The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary”, p.23, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• Asked about the fact that Apple's iTunes software for Windows computers was extremely popular, Jobs joked, 'It's like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell.

  Walter Isaacson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Jobs

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.463, Simon and Schuster

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• My reply is: the software has no known bugs, therefore it has not been updated.

  Wietse Venema

  Bugs, Known

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• Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer.

  Roberta Williams

  Years, People, Friendly

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• Prolific programmers contribute to certain disaster.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Disaster, Programming, Certain

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• It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it.

  Steve McConnell

  Murder Mysteries, Needs, Able

  Steve McConnell (2004). “Code Complete”, p.267, Pearson Education

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• It's better to wait for a productive programmer to become available than it is to wait for the first available programmer to become productive.

  Steve McConnell

  Waiting, Firsts, Computer

  Steve McConnell (1997). “Software Project Survival Guide”, p.103, Microsoft Press

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• Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Design, Forget, Lost

  Bjarne Stroustrup (2000). “The C++ Programming Language”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• If you think your management doesn't know what it's doing or that your organisation turns out low-quality software crap that embarrasses you, then leave.

  Edward Yourdon

  Thinking, Quality, Management

  Edward Yourdon (1998). “Rise & Resurrection of the American Programmer”, Yourdon

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• Up to a point, it is better to just let the snags [bugs] be there than to spend such time in design that there are none.

  Alan Turing

  Design, Bugs

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• When to use iterative development? You should use iterative development only on projects that you want to succeed.

  Martin Fowler

  Use, Development, Want

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• ... with proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous, but continues to succeed.

  Dennis Ritchie

  Design, Succeed, Approach

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• More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason - including blind stupidity.

  William Wulf

  Names, Stupidity, Sin

  "A Case Against the GOTO," Proceedings of the 25th National ACM Conference, (pp. 791-797), August 1972.

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• Originally, I wanted a machine that would cost $100. My idea was to spend nothing on the console technology so all the money could be spent on improving the interface and software. If we hadn't used NAND flash memory and other pricey parts, we might have succeeded.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  Memories, Technology, Ideas

  Business Week Interview (On Wii), November 16, 2006.

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• A little retrospection shows that although many fine, useful software systems have been designed by committees and built as part of multipart projects, those software systems that have excited passionate fans are those that are the products of one or a few designing minds, great designers.

  Fred Brooks

  Design, Mind, Fans

  "No Silver Bullet – Essence and Accident in Software Engineering". Paper by Fred Brooks, 1986.

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• Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.

  Marc Andreessen

  Needs, Revolution, Assuming

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• Hiring people to write code to sell is not the same as hiring people to design and build durable, usable, dependable software.

  Larry Constantine

  Writing, People, Design

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• If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.

  Alan Cooper

  Design, Want, Helpful

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• Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not.

  Marc Andreessen

  Years, Valleys, World

  "Barefoot Networks' New Chips Will Transform The Tech Industry" by Cade Metz, www.wired.com. June 14, 2016.

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• No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult.

  Marc Andreessen

  Growth, Building, Easy

  "Why Software Is Eating The World" by Marc Andreessen, www.wsj.com. August 20, 2011.

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• In short, software is eating the world

  Marc Andreessen

  World, Eating

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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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• Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.

  Bill Gates

  Ideas, People, Innovation

  "Research and development for startups - live discussion" by Matthew Caines, www.theguardian.com. July 7, 2014.

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• I think I am very goal oriented. I'd like to win the America's cup. I'd like Oracle to be the No 1 software company in the world. I still think it is possible to beat Microsoft.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Winning, Thinking

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