Quality Software Quotes

#1. 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

#2. High-quality software is not expensive. High-quality software is faster and cheaper to build and maintain than low-quality software, from initial development all the way through total cost of ownership.

Capers Jones

#3. Poor-quality software has all the subtlety of a neighborhood ice cream truck. You know it's bad for you; you know it's coming a mile away; yet you can't resist.

Eric Brechner

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. is the answer none of the above
crouched in a hole like a mud-streaked fugitive
everyday a different version of
pouring it away like a water through a sieve

David Peter Gray

#7. Any lawyer worth his salt knew the first offer had to be rejected.

John Grisham

#8. If we are going to deal with the discipline of Bible study, we must recognize at the outset that we will need the grace of God to persevere.

R.C. Sproul

#9. You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time.

Bertrand Meyer

#10. The task of universal pragmatics is to identify and reconstruct universal conditions of possible mutual understanding.

Jurgen Habermas

#11. Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to?

George Carlin

#12. Software never was perfect and won't get perfect. But is that a license to create garbage? The missing ingredient is our reluctance to quantify quality.

Boris Beizer

#13. Over the years, I discovered over and over again that once you lose control, you have a chance of getting good at it. And once you're controlling the work, it's not going to be very good, or it won't be as good as it should be.

Jules Feiffer

#14. Wisdom in the workplace means to inspire creativity, learning, and progression, but discourage unprofessionalism and negativity.

Pearl Zhu

#15. Developer testing is an important step towards accountability. It gives developers a way to demonstrate the quality of the software they produce.

Kent Beck

#16. Talking about Apple v. Microsoft without mentioning the Internet and the browser is like talking about WWII without talking about the nuke. Framing the conversation just in terms of open v. closed operating systems, the quality of the hardware or software or who the CEO was, is silly.

Michael Arrington

#17. You're the optimist all the way through, pretending to be a pessimist on the inside, because you can act like it hurts less if you say you knew all along it was going to go down like that.

Amy Jo Cousins

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

Timothee Besset

#19. Quality Never dies.

Abdullah Khan

#20. A wife, he knew, was a huge armful of responsibility, and responsibility was the disease in man. But he was lonely, and twice as lonely after leaving the woman by the graves.

Vardis Fisher

#21. We don't consider black, urban films as 'indies,' though many of them are shot for under $10 million which is kind of the definition of an indie.

Gabrielle Union