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

  Bob Barton

  Design, Lows, Priests

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

  Donald A. Norman

  Design, Hardest, Features

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• I think the most difficult thing had been scaling the infrastructure. Trying to support the response we had received from our users and the number of people that were interested in using the software.

  Shawn Fanning

  Thinking, Numbers, People

  "Q&A: Napster creator Shawn Fanning". Interview with Giancarlo Varanini, www.zdnet.com. March 3, 2000.

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• "(Big name research firm) says our market will be $50 billion in 2010." Every entrepreneur has a few slides about how the market potential for his segment is tens of billions. It doesn't matter if the product is bar mitzah planning software or 802.11 chip sets. Venture capitalists don't believe this type of forecast because it's the fifth one of this magnitude that they've heard that day. Entrepreneurs would do themselves a favor by simply removing any reference to market size estimates from consulting firms.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Business, Believe, Names

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• The amateur software engineer is always in search of magic.

  Grady Booch

  Magic, Engineers

  Grady Booch, Robert Maksimchuk, Michael Engle, Jim Conallen, Kelli Houston (2007). “Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications”, p.339, Pearson Education

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• In software, the chain isn't as strong as its weakest link; it's as weak as all the weak links multiplied together.

  Steve McConnell

  Teamwork, Strong, Together

  Steve McConnell (2004). “Code Complete”, p.51, Pearson Education

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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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• It's my job for Oracle, the number two software company in the world; to become the number one software company in the world. My job is to build better than the competition, sell those products in the marketplace and eventually supplant Microsoft and move from being number two to number one.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Jobs, Moving

  "Prophet of Software". Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities.

  David Heinemeier Hansson

  Essence, Simplicity, Desire

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• The information contained in an English sentence or computer software does not derive from the chemistry of the ink or the physics of magnetism, but from a source extrinsic to physics and chemistry altogether. Indeed, in both cases, the message transcends the properties of the medium. The information in DNA also transcends the properties of its material medium.

  Stephen C. Meyer

  Dna, Ink, Doe

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• It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.

  Craig Reucassel

  Machines, Computer, Hardware

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

  David Parnas

  Real, Learning, Insomnia

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

  Wietse Venema

  Mistake, Writing, Causes

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• Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.

  Ken Olsen

  Heaven, Computer, Hardware

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• It's hard to read through a book on the principles of magic without glancing at the cover periodically to make sure it isn't a book on software design.

  Bruce Tognazzini

  Book, Simplicity, Design

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• Wit and puns aren't just décor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.

  Adam Gopnik

  Mind, Essentials, Bugs

  "Get Smart" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. April 4, 2011.

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• You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing.

  Roy Romer

  Computer, Boxes, Type

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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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• Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.

  Aaron Levie

  Moving, Industry

  Twitter post from Oct 09, 2013

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