Software Complexity Quotes

#1. If you don't fight for simplicity in software, complexity will win.

Henrik Joreteg

#2. Second law: The complexity barrier. Software complexity (and therefore that of bugs) grows to the limits of our ability to manage that complexity.

Boris Beizer

#3. The hardest thing with musicians is getting them not to play.

Prince

#4. Software is different than other products um, partly because it's, it's not physical and, and partly because of its complexity. You can express in software millions of different cases and making sure that you handle all of them correctly is extremely difficult.

Bill Gates

#5. we are in one of those great historical periods that occur every 200 or 300 years when people don't understand the world anymore, and the past is not sufficient to explain the future

Kim S. Cameron

#6. Man who want pretty nurse, must be patient.

Confucius

#7. The only way to write complex software that won't fall on its face is to hold its global complexity down - to build it out of simple pieces connected by well-defined interfaces, so that most problems are local and you can have some hope of fixing or optimizing a part without breaking the whole

Eric S. Raymond

#8. Complexity control is the central problem of writing software in the real world

Eric S. Raymond

#9. I regularly read Internet user groups filled with messages from people trying to solve software incompatibility problems that, in terms of complexity, make the U.S. Tax Code look like Dr. Seuss.

Dave Barry

#10. The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one. Hence, descriptions of a software entity that abstract away its complexity often abstracts away its essence.

Fred Brooks

#11. A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want.

Niklaus Wirth

#12. Being sick robs a person of their health and being poor robs them of life's luxuries, but being pitied robs them of their will to live.

Bette Lee Crosby

#13. It's my calling to tell stories. It's the one thing that scratches the itch for me.

Kit Williamson

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

Bjarne Stroustrup

#15. My point is that she's not smart. She's not nice. And most importantly, she's not you. If Quin can't see that, he doesn't deserve you.

Ellery A. Kane

#16. Hair is like a flock of goatsstreaming down Mount Gilead. b

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