Good Software Quotes

#1. Good software designs accommodate change without huge investments and rework. When we use code that is out of our control, special care must be taken to protect our investment and make sure future change is not too costly.

Robert C. Martin

#2. Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.

Tim Berners-Lee

#3. Without the adjustment, you are working under a lie. Everyone knows it and has to hide to protect themselves. This is no way to get good software done and deployed;

Kent Beck

#4. I believe good software is written by small teams of two, three, or four people interacting with each other at a very, high dense level.

John Warnock

#5. Good software results from the proper organization of components, not from syntactic or semantic restrictions. Meanings

Alexander Stepanov

#6. We also had good software in the key categories and more focus on the gameplaying capability, so more of the marketing effort was targeted at game customers.

Trip Hawkins

#7. The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.

Grady Booch

#8. Releasing Linux versions has always been a matter of higher code quality, good software architecture, and technical interest for the platform.

Timothee Besset

#9. Hey, I'm a good software engineer, but I'm not exactly known for my fashion sense. White socks and sandals don't translate to 'good design sense'.

Linus Torvalds

#10. Good software, like wine, takes time.

Joel Spolsky

#11. The most important people is to pick people who like to write software and who are good at ... good developers like working with each other. And they ... they reinforce each other's skills.

Bill Gates

#12. Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software, investing in stocks, it pays extremely well.

Bill Gates

#13. With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.

Adam Osborne

#14. Virtual reality is a tough sell for a software developer. They have to convince investors that not only are they going to build a good game, which is what they normally have to do, they have to convince them that it's going to be a good game and that virtual reality will be successful.

Palmer Luckey

#15. I'm really good at making software for publishing.

Matt Mullenweg

#16. A good estimate is an estimate that provides a clear enough view of the project reality to allow the project leadership to make good decisions about how to control the project to hit its targets.

Steve McConnell

#17. Once GNU is written, everyone will be able to obtain good system software free, just like air.

Richard Stallman

#18. Instead of five hundred thousand average algebra teachers, we need one good algebra teacher. We need that teacher to create software, videotape themselves, answer questions, let your computer or the iPad teach algebra ... The hallmark of any good technology is that it destroys jobs.

Michael J. Saylor

#19. So many commercial orgs have software where you can come and modify it, but they still control everything. And what's controlled is very clearly what's good for their business, or if they're more progressive, their view of what's good for the Internet.

Mitchell Baker

#20. I do read licenses, and they aggravate me, but a computer isn't much good without software. When I need a product, I hold my nose and click 'agree.'

Barton Gellman

#21. Today many people are switching to free software for purely practical reasons. That is good, as far as it goes, but that isn't all we need to do! Attracting users to free software is not the whole job, just the first step.

Richard Stallman

#22. Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.

Ken Olsen

#23. The [Bernie] Sanders campaign became the center of a good old-fashioned political controversy. His coverage went from no news to bad news with the revelation that four Sanders staffers took advantage of a software glitch to access confidential voter data belonging to the Hillary Clinton campaign.

Melissa Harris-Perry

#24. I was not in a good space in my life, emotionally particularly, so I needed to do something to recharge my batteries emotionally and musically. I took a break and I learnt software and programming a little bit, and that's how I designed my live machine, which I've been using for years.

Jamie Lidell

#25. Some software is actually pretty good, by any standard. Think of the Mars Rovers, Google, and the Human Genome Project. Now, that's quality software!

Bjarne Stroustrup

#26. The problem is not software 'friendliness'. It is conceptual clarity. A globe does not say, 'good morning'. It is simple and clear, not 'friendly'.

Ted Nelson

#27. 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

#28. Here's the problem right now; the person who is savvy enough to want to have a good PC to upgrade their video card, is a person who is savvy enough to know bit torrent to know all the elements so they can pirate software. Therefore, high-end videogames are suffering very much on the PC.

Cliff Bleszinski

#29. Even though most people won't be directly involved with programming, everyone is affected by computers, so an educated person should have a good understanding of how computer hardware, software, and networks operate.

Brian Kernighan

#30. Frame is a good enough piece of software that there are actually rewards to taking an intelligent and formal approach to your problem. But if you want to be stupid, you can think of Frame as a version of Microsoft Word with most of the bugs taken out.

Philip Greenspun

#31. The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.

Bill Gates

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

Eric S. Raymond

#33. I got a degree in math, from not a good school in Texas, and then I went to work as a software engineer. Just not glamorous at all.

Shane Carruth

#34. Follow your dreams wherever they lead you and pay for those dreams with good jobs in software programming and computer design!

Frederick Lenz

#35. 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

#36. ...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

#37. The science and engineering of programming just isn't good enough to produce flawless software, and that isn't going to change anytime soon. The

Bruce Schneier

#38. Writing non-free software is not an ethically legitimate activity, so if people who do this run into trouble, that's good! All businesses based on non-free software ought to fail, and the sooner the better.

Richard Stallman

#39. Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting, drawing, or music, I can write software.

Yukihiro Matsumoto

#40. 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.

Steve McConnell