Quotes About Software Development

#1. Imagine the disincentive to software development if after months of work another company could come along and copy your work and market it under its own name ... without legal restraints to such copying, companies like Apple could not afford to advance the state of the art.

Bill Gates

#2. There is really no bad software development process. There is only how you are doing it today and better.

Gary Gruver

#3. Inadequate use of usability engineering methods in software development projects have been estimated to cost the US economy about $30 billion per year in lost productivity.

Jakob Nielsen

#4. The most fundamental problem in software development is complexity. There is only one basic way of dealing with complexity: divide and conquer

Bjarne Stroustrup

#5. The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.

Bjarne Stroustrup

#6. Testing was never going to be fashionable, but you could hardly run a respectable software development shop with no testing effort at all.

Stephen Baxter

#7. Software development was insecurities all the way down. Even

Ken MacLeod

#8. I know about the tech industry in that I follow what apps are hot and software development. I know my way around different browsers. I know how to restart a computer.

T. J. Miller

#9. The process of software development doesn't feel any better than it did a generation ago.

Rob Pike

#10. 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

#11. The task of the software development team is to engineer the illusion of simplicity.

Grady Booch

#12. We are still in the infancy of naming what is really happening on software development projects.

Alistair Cockburn

#13. Chris Brown, a software-development manager at the time.

Brad Stone

#14. Software development is neither a scientific nor an engineering task. It is an act of reality construction that is political and artistic.

David West

#15. Software development is a cruel business. Every detail matters - just

Erik Peterson

#16. Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit.

Neal Stephenson

#17. Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor. Particularly on large projects, each of the following mismanagement actions has often been responsible for doubling software development costs.

Barry Boehm

#18. It's harder than you might think to squander millions of dollars, but a flawed software development process is a tool well suited to the job.

Alan Cooper

#19. 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

#20. After graduation, I took a job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in software development. I don't think I was there more than a month.

John Katzman

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

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

Kent Beck

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

Dan Kaminsky

#28. 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

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

Niklaus Wirth

#30. 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

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

Jim Highsmith

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

Kent Beck

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

Scott W. Ambler

#34. 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

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

Kent Beck

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. How we understand our own selves and how we work with our DNA software has implications that will affect everything from vaccine development to new approaches to antibiotics, new sources of food, new sources of chemicals, even potentially new sources of energy.

Craig Venter

#39. 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

#40. Software architecture is the set of design decisions which, if made incorrectly, may cause your project to be cancelled.

Eoin Woods

#41. Trying to apply formal methods to all software projects is just as bad as trying to apply code-and-fix development to all projects.

Steve McConnell

#42. 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

#43. A configurable set of processes and techniques for the development of software, based on iterative development, object modeling, and an architectural approach to software reuse

Anonymous

#44. Programming is a social activity.

Robert C. Martin

#45. most software- or systems-development projects start out without a context diagram, blissfully unaware that they need one.

Michael Jesse Chonoles

#46. 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

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

Philippe Kruchten

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

Bertrand Meyer

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

Pierre Omidyar

#50. 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

#51. ...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

#52. 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

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

Richard Stallman

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

Miles Anthony Smith

#55. 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

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

Michael A. Cusumano