Best Software Development Quotes

#1. Agitator and the Agitar Management Dashboard lower the barriers to accountability in software development and increase the value of developer testing.

Kent Beck

#2. People are looking for software development that actually does something useful ... People are looking for partners who deliver when promised, and at a reasonable and transparent price. I believe that the days of being able to value price software are numbered.

Kent Beck

#3. By far the most common project risks in software development are poor requirements and poor project planning, thus preparation tends to focus on improving requirements and project plans.

Steve McConnell

#4. The Scrum idea of a separated Scrum Master is good for Scrum, but not appropriate for most projects. Good development requires not just talkers but doers.

Bertrand Meyer

#5. Yet, I am convinced that there is a need for high quality software, and the time will come when it will be recognized that it is worth investing effort in its development and in using a careful, structured approach based on safe, structured languages.

Niklaus Wirth

#6. countries allow organizations to claim some aspects of software development as R&D and thereby receive tax benefits for doing so.

Scott W. Ambler

#7. There is a strong movement towards increased accountability for software developers and software development organizations.

Kent Beck

#8. The greatest risk we face in software development is that of overestimating our own knowledge.

Jim Highsmith

#9. As an Agile software development team, we'd been following the hallowed eXtreme Programming tenets, including YAGNI. That is, You Aren't Gonna Need It: a caution to not write unnecessary code -

Anonymous

#10. Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings.

Niklaus Wirth

#11. Reusability is key in reducing bugs and coding quickly. The more I use a piece of code, the more confident and familiar I become with it, which in turn significantly speeds up my development time.

Robert Duchnik

#12. If it is not written down, it does not exist.

Philippe Kruchten

#13. To focus on the visible at the expense of the essential is irresponsible.

Bertrand Meyer

#14. Folk wisdom in software development teaches that interfaces shouldn't be unduly influenced by implementations. Writing a test first is a concrete way to achieve this separation.

Kent Beck

#15. In 1991, I co-founded my first start-up, Ink Development, which made software for an early tablet computer.

Pierre Omidyar

#16. development at leading-edge software organizations, like JavaSoft, Microsoft, and Netscape. He called to chat with a

Michael A. Cusumano

#17. The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.

Dan Kaminsky

#18. There's a huge latent market for software development that's just flat-out honest.

Kent Beck

#19. A good standalone plugin can also make you a fair amount of money. Many developers make a decent living by simply maintaining and updating one or two crucial plugins that are far better than anything available for free.

Robert Duchnik

#20. Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline.

William J. Clinton

#21. We have four blocks here. Block A, where we are now, is administration and recreation. Block B is software development. Block C is research and storage. Block D is where the main Stormbreaker assembly line is found." "Where's breakfast?" Alex asked.

Anthony Horowitz

#22. Kanban is not a software development lifecycle methodology or an approach to project management. It requires that some process is already in place so that Kanban can be applied to incrementally change the underlying process.

David J. Anderson

#23. ...I'm not saying simple code takes less time to write. You'd think it would since you end up with less total code, but a good solution isn't an accretion of code, it's a distillation of it.

Robert Nystrom

#24. Corporations have been killing the risk-taking and exploration that makes software great. They have tried to rip the soul out of development.

Brian Behlendorf

#25. Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement.

Richard Stallman

#26. I set writing aside when I went into theater, and then I set theater aside and subsequently had about a 25-year career in software development. Which, by the way, is a very creative field. I equate it more to kinetic sculpture than anything else, as an activity.

David Wroblewski

#27. Can't we do better with Applicant Tracking System (ATS) software?

Miles Anthony Smith

#28. Software development requires very little capital investment, since it is basically intellectual capital, pure thoughtstuff, expressed in a set of detailed instructions written in a language that machines can understand.

Brent Schlender

#29. With software, you really can replicate and do a lot of very real and active development in parallel, and actually try it out and see what works.

Linus Torvalds

#30. There are a variety of techniques for breaking software down into pieces and making software development more efficient. Many of these techniques have been sort of ... and everybody got excited about but very little benefit was actually derived once the thing was put into practice.

Bill Gates