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Abelson and Sussman
Douglas Adams
Scott Adams
Bilal Ahsan
Christopher Alexander
Jeremy S. Anderson
Poul Anderson
A. Hunt and D. Thomas
I. O. Angell
Anonymous
Mark Ardis
Aristotle
Joe Armstrong
Salman Arshad
Isaac Asimov
Alexander Atanasov
Malcolm P Atkinson
Jeff Atwood
Norman R. Augustine
Bernard Avishai
Charles Babbage
James Bach
Francis Bacon
Richard G. Baini
Terry Baker
Aral Balkan
Leon Bambrick
Craig Barrett
Dave Barry
Jean Baudrillard
Kent Beck
Boris Beizer
Gordon Bell
André Bensoussan
Edward V. Berard
B. Bereza-Jarocinski
Larry Bernstein
Fred Blechman
Cliff Bleszinski
Joshua Bloch
Barry Boehm
Mike Bongiovanni
Grady Booch
Nathaniel S. Borenstein
Bruno Borges
George Box
Dick Brandon
Leonard Brandwein
Wernher von Braun
Frederick P. Brooks
Bruce Brown
Milt Bryce
Tim Bryce
Bill Bryson
Rustam M. Bunyadov
Mike Butler
Tom Cargill
Roy Carlson
John Carmack
David K. Carr
Joe Celko
Assaad Chalhoub
Scott Cherf
Brady Clark
Arthur C. Clarke
Bill Clinton
Alistair Cockburn
Joe Condon
Rich Cook
Alan Cooper
Joseph Costello
P D Coward
Alan Cox
Brad J. Cox
Seymour Cray
Robert Cringeley
Bjarne Däcker
Edward David
Alan M. Davis
Tom DeMarco
L. Peter Deutsch
Edsger Dijkstra
Marc Donner
Peter F. Drucker
Tom Duff
Jeff Duntemann
Paul M. Duvall
Charles Eames
Lewis D. Eigen
Albert Einstein
Maya Elhalal
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Grant D. Fairley
R. E. Fairley
Dick Fairley
R. Fano
Peter Farrar
Ron Fein
Bran Ferren
Ernst Fischer
Brad Fitzpatrick
Brian W. Fitzpatrick
L. Flon
Robert W. Floyd
John Foderaro
Brian Foote
Martin Fowler
Jason Fried
Robert Frost
R Buckminster Fuller
R. Gabriel
Galileo Galilei
John Gall
Erich Gamma
Gandhi
Howard Gardner
Mike Garey
Bill Gates
Michel Gauthier
D. Gelernter
Susan Gerhart
Paul Gerrard
David Gerrold
Francis Glassborow
G. L. Glegg
Martin Golding
James Gosling
Paul Graham
Phil Greenspun
Scott Guthrie
Mark Hahn
Hallin and Hansen
Peter Halpern
David Heinemeier Hansson
Richard Harter
Anders Hejlsberg
Elisabeth Hendrickson
Kevlin Henney
Frank Herbert
Jim Highsmith
Richard Hill
Jason Hiner
C. A. R. Hoare
Hoffstetler
Thomas L. Holaday
Jim Horning
Robert Hummel
Watts S. Humphrey
Via Dan Hurvitz
Kaoru Ishikawa
Charles P. Issawi
Michael A. Jackson
Nigel Jacob
John Jacobs
Geoffrey James
Steve Jobs
Larry L. Johnson
Mike Johnson
Ralph Johnson
S. C. Johnson
Jones
D. Jones
Capers Jones
F. P. Jones
Joseph M. Abou Nader
Bill Joy
Cem Kaner
David Karp
Alan Kay
Raymond Kennington
H. W. Kenton
Brian Wilson Kernighan
Mitchell Kertzman
Ken Knowlton
Donald E. Knuth
Gene Krantz
Kreitzberg and Shneiderman
Steve Krug
R. Kulawiec
Kumaravel
Leslie Lamport
Butler Lampson
Peter Landin
Jaron Lanier
Lao-Tzu
Rick Lemmons
Rick Lemons
KC Lemson
Bruce Leverett
Margy Levine
Steven Levy
Joseph Licklider
Daniel T. Ling
David S. Linthicum
Tom Love
Alex Lowe
Lynas
Steve Maguire
Lew Mammel
Brian Marick
Mark Fewster and Graham
Robert C. Martin
Bob Martin
David Martin
R. L. Martin
A. Maslow
Chris Mason
Henri Matisse
Bruce Mau
David May
Jim McCarthy
Steve C McConnell
Bill McKeeman
Bill McKeenan
Archibald McLeish
H. L. Mencken
Bertrand Meyer
Rod Michael
Harlan D. Mills
Mark Minasi
M. Minsky
Dave Moon
Richard A. Moran
Mike Morton
Glenford J. Myers
Nathan Myhrvold
Eric Naggum
Jonathan Nagler
Nicholas Negroponte
Greg Nelson
Nils-Peter Nelson
Ted Nelson
John von Neumann
Jakob Nielsen
Larry Niven
Peter Norvig
Michael Nygard
Atli Björgvin Oddsson
Moses Oliver
Rick Osborne
Ray Ozzie
Meilir Page-Jones
Donn Parker
C. N. Parkinson
Dave Parnas
Rebecca Parsons
R. Pattis
George Patton
Gordon Pelton
Alan Perlis
Chris Peters
Charles Petzold
Pablo Picasso
Andy Pierson
Vidiu Platon
Dave Platt
P. J. Plauger
Karl Popper
Otis Port
Ron Porter
Chris Pratley
Archibald Putt
Steven R. Rakitin
Jef Raskin
Mitch Ratcliffe
Eric Raymond
Daniel Read
Eb Rechtin
Samuel T. Redwine, Jr.
Matt Reedy
B. Reid
Douglas J. Reilly
Dennis Ritchie
Howard Rose
Keith Rowe
Peter Van Roy
Winston Royce
John Ruskin
Bertrand Russell
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Dan Salomon
Bo Sanden
Al Schapira
Robert D. Schneider
B. Schneiderman
B. Schneier
Jeff Scholnik
Norm Schryer
Christian Schulte
R. W. Selby
Mary Shaw
Dave Shea
Beau Sheil
Olin Shivers
John Shore
Ray Simard
Phil Simon
Michael Sinz
D. Sites
Derek Sivers
Richard B. Smith
Steven Smith
Erasmus Smums
Joseph Snipp
Ron Soukup
D. D. Spencer
Joel Spolsky
Randy Stafford
Richard Stallman
G. Steele
Selden Stewart
Clifford Stoll
Dave Storer
C. Strachey
Charles M. Strauss
Bjarne Stroustrup
William Strunk
Michael Swaine
Steve Swartz
Albert Szent-Gyorgi
R. Tarjan
Russ Teasdale
R. Tennant
Christopher Thompson
Ken Thompson
Danny Thorpe
Linus Thorvalds
Bruce Tognazzini
T. DeMarco and T. Lister
Linus Torvalds
Edward Tufte
A. Turing
Stansfield Turner
Lao Tzu
Sun Tzu
S. Ulam
Mike Vanier
D. Vargas
Bert Verhelst
Al Vermeulen
Tom Van Vleck
Vic Vyssotsky
Larry Wall
James A. Ward
Thomas Watson
Gerald M. Weinberg
Peter Weinberger
Joseph Weizenbaum
Eudora Welty
David Wheeler
Alfred North Whitehead
Oscar Wilde
Maurice Wilkes
P. Williams
H. H. Williams
Dave Winer
Phillip Winter
Niklaus Wirth
Steve Witham
Stephen Wolfe
W. Wulf
Ed Yourdon
Pamela Zave
Jamie Zawinski
Craig Zerouni
Fredrik Zetterlund
Elizabeth Zwicky
Tag:
software
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As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
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Dave Parnas
Tags:
rule
software
fail
application
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There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.
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C. A. R. Hoare
Tags:
software
design
simple
complicated
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The software isn't finished until the last user is dead.
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Anonymous
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dead
software
user
finished
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It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a "DestroyBaghdad" procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a "DestroyCity" procedure, to which "Baghdad" could be given as a parameter.
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Nathaniel S. Borenstein
Tags:
engineer
procedure
ethics
software
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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.
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Bruce Tognazzini
Tags:
book
magic
software
design
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Software is written by humans and therefore has bugs.
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John Jacobs
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software
bug
human
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A software mogul usually Bill Gates, but sometimes another makes a speech. If the automobile industry had developed like the software industry, the mogul proclaims, we would all be driving $25 cars that get 1,000 miles to the gallon. To which an automobile executive retorts, Yeah, and if cars were like software, they would crash twice a day for no reason, and when you called for service, they’d tell you to reinstall the engine.
"
Tags:
software
industry
engine
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The hardest part of the software task is arriving at a complete and consistent specification, and much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification.
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Frederick P. Brooks
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No silver bullet, 1987
Tags:
software
task
complete
program
debug
specification
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[The trick in software engineering is to find out] how to do intellectually-intensive work in teams.
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R. E. Fairley
Tags:
trick
software
engineer
work
team
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A good threat is worth a thousand tests.
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Boris Beizer
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[1990] about publicizing test cases to programmers
, Software testing techniques by Boris Beizer , ISBN: 0442206720
This book is available from
Amazon.com
Tags:
test
programmer
Techniques
testing
software
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Version 1 of any software is full of bugs. Version 2 fixes all the bugs and is great. Version 3 adds all the things users ask for, but hides all the great stuff in Version 2.
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Fred Blechman
Tags:
version
bug
user
software
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At any particular point in time, the features provided by our programming languages reflect our understanding of software and programming.
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R. E. Fairley
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Software Engineering Concepts 1985
Tags:
feature
programming
language
software
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Object Motto: Ask not first what the system does: As what it does it to!
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Bertrand Meyer
, Object-Oriented Software Construction (Book/CD-ROM) (2nd Edition) by Bertrand Meyer , ISBN: 0136291554
This book is available from
Amazon.com
Tags:
system
object-oriented
software
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A software system should be like a Mozart symphony: Perfection at all levels.
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Bjarne Däcker
Tags:
software
system
perfect
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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.
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Frederick P. Brooks
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No silver bullet, 1987
Tags:
projects
software
systems
designer
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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.
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Frederick P. Brooks
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No silver bullet, 1987
Tags:
complex
software
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In a very real sense, the software engineer creates models of physical situations in software. The mapping between the model and the reality being modeled has been called the intellectual distance between the problem and a computerized solution to the problem [ ]. A fundamental principle of software engineering is to design software products that minimize the intellectual distance between problem and solution; however, the variety of approaches to software development is limited only by the creativity and ingenuity of the programmer. Often it is not clear which approach will minimize the intellectual distance, and often different approaches will minimize different dimensions of the intellectual distance.
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R. E. Fairley
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Software Engineering Concepts 1985
Tags:
software
engineer
model
principle
development
different
creativity
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The principle objective of software testing is to give confidence in the software.
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P D Coward
Tags:
principle
software
test
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Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor.
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Barry Boehm
Tags:
management
software
cost
factor
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Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
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Edward V. Berard
Tags:
developing
software
specification
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We are still in the infancy of naming what is really happening on software development projects.
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Alistair Cockburn
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Agile Software Development
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agile
development
project
software
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Two things that drive us, software development addicts: enthusiasm and laziness....
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Anonymous
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software
development
lazy
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The problem is not software "friendliness." It is conceptual clarity. A globe does not say "good morning." It is simple and clear, not friendly.
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Ted Nelson
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From Dream Machines.
Tags:
software
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For now, we really need to learn to be like doctors. They are able to say, quite comfortably and confidently and with conviction, "These things are never certain." Doctors seldom if ever state with certainty what the outcome of any procedure might be. Yet software managers, operating in a far less disciplined and less data-driven environment... blithely promise features, dates, and outcomes not especially susceptible to prediction.
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Jim McCarthy
, Dynamics of Software Development by Jim McCarthy, Denis Gilbert , ISBN: 1556158238
This book is available from
Amazon.com
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feature
software
manager
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As Thomas Hobbes observed in the 17th century, life under mob rule is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. Life on a poorly run software project is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and hardly ever short enough.
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Steve C McConnell
, Software Project Survival Guide by Steve C McConnell , ISBN: 1572316217 , Page: 7, Chapter 1
This book is available from
Amazon.com
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rule
software
project
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A final essential difficulty arises from software's inherent invisibility. Software can't be visualized with 2-D or 3-D geometric models. Attempts to visually represent even simple logic quickly becomes absurdly complicated, as anyone who has ever tried to draw a flow chart for even a simple program will attest.
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Steve C McConnell
, After the Gold Rush : Creating a True Profession of Software Engineering (Best Practices) by Steve C McConnell , ISBN: 0735608776 , Page: 81
This book is available from
Amazon.com
Tags:
software
complicate
program
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Changes in software design will eventually mean "one step forward, two steps back". It is inevitable.
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Salman Arshad
Tags:
design
software
changes
"
3 Biggest Software Lies:
- The program's fully tested and bug-free.
- We're working on the documentation.
- Of course we can modify it.
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Anonymous
Tags:
documentation
bug-free
bug
test
software
lies
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I love software, because if you can imagine something, you can build it.
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Ray Ozzie
Tags:
build
software
imagine
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Bubbles don't crash.
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Bertrand Meyer
Tags:
software
architecture
uml
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People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
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Alan Kay
Tags:
hardware
software
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