Top 49 Quotes About Software Design
#1. Software design as taught today is terribly incomplete. It talks only about what systems should do. It doesn't address the converse - things systems should not do. They should not crash, hang, lose data, violate privacy, lose money, destroy your company, or kill your customers.
Michael T. Nygard
#2. I no longer teach meditation, only software design.
Frederick Lenz
#3. Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
Bill Gates
#4. The problem is, in software design, often the consequences of your decisions don't become apparent for years.
Kent Beck
#5. There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy.
John Baldacci
#6. 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
#7. Find the simplest model that is not a lie is the key to better software design.
David Parnas
#8. I have found that meditation has helped me with my academic career and has given me insights into musical composition and software design.
Frederick Lenz
#9. There are two methods in software design. One is to make the program so simple, there are obviously no errors. The other is to make it so complicated, there are no obvious errors.
Tony Hoare
#10. There's a fundamental problem with how the software business does things. We're asking people who are masters of hard-edged technology to design the soft, human side of software as well. As a result, they make products that are really cool - if you happen to be a software engineer.
Alan Cooper
#11. It is sad that so many designers don't know how to make. CAD software can make a bad design look palatable! It is sad that four years can be spent on a 3D design course without making anything! People who are great at designing and making have a great advantage.
Jonathan Ive
#12. If we want users to like our software, we should design it to behave like a likeable person.
Alan Cooper
#13. The critical thing in developing software is not the program, it's the design. It is translating understanding of user needs into something that can be realized as a computer program.
Mitch Kapor
#14. Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry
Ted Nelson
#15. The hardware and the software will come from Silicon Valley. But the watch case, the dial, the design, the idea, the crown, that part of the watch will, of course, be Swiss.
Jean-Claude Biver
#16. Building on our successful partnership, we can now bring together the best of Microsoft's software engineering with the best of Nokia's product engineering, award-winning design, and global sales, marketing and manufacturing,
Stephen Elop
#17. The payoff of a customer-centric approach to software and digital product design is substantial and long-lasting for both companies and their customers.
Alan Cooper
#18. Software architecture is the set of design decisions which, if made incorrectly, may cause your project to be cancelled.
Eoin Woods
#19. A rational model of software is to design it quickly - the economic pressure to improvise presents an interesting challenge.
Kent Beck
#20. Listening, Testing, Coding, Designing. That's all there is to software. Anyone who tells you different is selling something.
Kent Beck
#21. The essence of a software entity is a construct of interlocking concepts: [ ... ] I believe the hard part of building software to be the specification, design, and testing of this conceptual construct, not the labor of representing it and testing the fidelity of the representation.
Fred Brooks
#22. The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like data in a seductive way, first and foremost, but as a side effect they tend to provide software support for mob-like phenomena.
Jaron Lanier
#23. Walking is a skill that took millions of years for us to develop. If you wanted to design a robot that could walk as well as a person, this would be fantastically complicated software. It would have to be doing billions of calculations with every step.
David Pogue
#24. The designer of a new kind of system must participate fully in the implementation.
Donald Knuth
#25. One of the great enemies of design is when systems or objects become more complex than a person - or even a team of people - can keep in their heads. This is why software is generally beneath contempt.
Bran Ferren
#26. In present-day Athens, women vote, are elected to public office, make speeches, design everything from jewellery to buildings to software, and go to university.
Yuval Noah Harari
#28. Received wisdom is that if you spend time up front getting the design right, you avoid costs later. But the longer you spend getting the design right, the more your upfront costs are, and the longer it takes for the software to start earning.
Kent Beck
#29. 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
#30. Follow your dreams wherever they lead you and pay for those dreams with good jobs in software programming and computer design!
Frederick Lenz
#31. Really successful designs can be created without software produced "special effects." Identities do not NEED bevels, gradations, 3-D imagery, Web 2.Oh-Oh and other oh so "special" treatments to be great design solutions for clients.
Jeff Fisher
#32. Hiring people to write code to sell is not the same as hiring people to design and build durable, usable, dependable software.
Larry Constantine
#33. The most important driver of user satisfaction is usefulness, which is largely reflected in the interaction design. The interaction design has to be incorporated at the deepest level of the software architecture and it is often the most expensive to change late in the process.
Arnie Lund
#34. As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
Ad Reinhardt
#35. 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
#37. ...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
#39. Software will give you respect, but hardware will give you the Power.
Akshat Paul
#40. 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
#41. Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
Erich Gamma
#42. The lesson to be learned from this is that it is often undesirable to go for the right thing first. It is better to get half of the right thing available so that it spreads like a virus. Once people are hooked on it, take the time to improve it to 90% of the right thing.
Richard P. Gabriel
#43. In a biological system, the software builds its own hardware, but design is critical, and if you start with digital information, it has to be really accurate.
Craig Venter
#44. With proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous, but continues to succeed.
Dennis Ritchie
#45. 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
#46. DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.
Bill Gates
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Andrea James
#48. Just remember: you're not a 'dummy,' no matter what those computer books claim. The real dummies are the people who-though technically expert-couldn't design hardware and software that's usable by normal consumers if their lives depended upon it.
Walt Mossberg
#49. Software and hardware design is less different than software designers think, but more different than hardware designers think.
Fred Brooks
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