Software Craftmanship Quotes

Software will give you respect, but hardware will give you the Power. ~ Akshat Paul

Clean code is not written by following a set of rules. You don't become a software craftsman by learning a list of heuristics. Professionalism and craftsmanship come from values that drive disciplines. ~ Robert C. Martin

Redundant comments are just places to collect lies and misinformation. ~ Robert C. Martin

To make technical decisions, a result-oriented team needs a strong architect and a decision making process, not meetings. ~ Yegor Bugayenko

Truth can only be found in one place: the code. ~ Robert C. Martin

The way you write dialogue is the same whether you're writing for movies or TV or games. We use movie scriptwriting software to write the screenplays for our games, but naturally we have things in the script that you would never have in a movie script
different branches and optional dialogue, for example. But still, when it comes to storytelling and dialogue, they are very much the same. ~ Sam Lake

I write my songs many times to chord progressions on a piano. Unfortunately, I can't keep playing the piano, so I just record it into the software. ~ Nadia Ali

I just became one with my browser software. ~ Bill Griffith

When social software becomes a component of formal education, students and teachers interact with one another in more meaningful ways, creating a variety of positive results. Ted Panitz (1997) details over 67 benefits from engaging in collective learning, arguing that collaborating reduces anxiety, builds self-esteem, enhances student satisfaction, and fosters positive relationships between students and faculty. ~ Jon Dron

You should never be able to reverse engineer a company's organizational chart from the design of its product. Can you figure out who reigns supreme at Apple when you open the box for your new iPhone? Yes. It's you, the customer; not the head of software, manufacturing, retail, hardware, apps, or the Guy Who Signs the Checks. That is exactly as it should be. ~ Eric Schmidt

Defect-free software does not exist. ~ Wietse Venema

With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy. ~ Adam Osborne

I think that the most beautiful thing lately hasn't been in hardware or software per se but collaboration - the idea behind Napster, which uses the distributed power of the Internet as its engine. ~ Steven Levy

Software is easy to make, except when you want it to do something new. And then, of course, there is a corollary: The only software that's worth making is software that does something new. ~ Scott Rosenberg

I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great. ~ Larry Wall

Because software is all about scale. The larger you are, the more profitable you are. If we sell twice as much as software, it doesn't cost us twice as much to build that software. So the more customers you have, the more scale you have. The larger you are, the more profitable you are. ~ Larry Ellison

No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult. ~ Marc Andreessen

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

Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not. ~ Marc Andreessen

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

People enjoy the interaction on the Internet, and the feeling of belonging to a group that does something interesting: that's how some software projects are born. ~ Linus Torvalds

Every young person gets so excited about new software packages and new technology. ~ John Lasseter

Software patents, in particular, are very ripe for abuse. The whole system encourages big corporations getting thousands and thousands of patents. Individuals almost never get them. ~ Linus Torvalds

Software lives and matures over time. ~ Ka Wai Cheung

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

You haven't experienced awkwardness until you've seen a three-million-dollar piece of software cry. ~ Charles Yu

The higher the price of information in a software team, the less effective the team is. ~ Yegor Bugayenko

I use minimal software to make my music - a wav editor and a calculator for my beats to make sure everything falls on mathematical precision. If you were just mapping this out visually, it works by math. I guess it's slightly engineering influenced. ~ Girl Talk

When an inscrutable technology becomes an invisible technology, we would be wise to be concerned. At that point, the technology's assumptions and intentions have infiltrated our own desires and actions. We no longer know whether the software is aiding s or controlling us. We're behind the wheel, but we can't be sure who's driving. ~ Nicholas Carr

Some Google employees have their self-driving vehicles take them to work. These car robots don't look like something from 'The Jetsons'; the driverless features on these cars are a bunch of sensors, wires, and software. This technology 'works.' ~ Tyler Cowen

Programs should be written and polished until they acquire publication quality. ~ Niklaus Wirth

It was like a software if/then routine: If checkflag RitajoinsPT =true, then end. Else continue routine: FuckingIsoPush-Ups ~ Hiroshi Sakurazaka

Yes, virus companies are playing on your fears to try to sell you bs protection software for Android, RIM and IOS. They are charlatans and scammers. IF you work for a company selling virus protection for android, rim or IOS you should be ashamed of yourself. ~ Chris DiBona

The novice-friendly software is more like a misbehaving dog: it shits on the floor, it destroys things, and stinks - the novice-friendly software embodies the opposite of what computer people have dreamed of for decades: artificial stupidity. It's more human. ~ Erik Naggum

We see a lot of feature-driven product design in which the cost of features is not properly accounted. Features can have a negative value to customers because they make the products more difficult to understand and use. We are finding that people like products that just work. It turns out that designs that just work are much harder to produce that designs that assemble long lists of features. ~ Douglas Crockford

In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied each other willy-nilly. ~ Nathan Myhrvold

The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build. ~ Bjarne Stroustrup

We're not in hardware for hardware's sake. We're in hardware to be able to express all our platform and productivity software in a way that's unique. ~ Satya Nadella

I didn't really want to patent it because, for one, I don't like software patents, and, two, if you patent it, you make it public. Even if you don't know someone's infringing, they will still be getting the benefit. Instead, we just chose to keep it a trade secret and not show it to anyone. ~ Jessica Livingston

At Microsoft, the magic of software is used to take on very interesting challenges. ~ Jeff Raikes

I discovered shooting and filmmaking around the time all of the software became affordable to anyone with a PC. ~ Seth Gordon

Our biological body itself is a form of hardware that needs re-programming through tantra like a new spiritual software which can release or unblock its potential. ~ Slavoj Zizek

Dapps are just now gaining media coverage but will, I believe, someday become more widely used than the world's most popular web apps. They are more flexible, transparent, distributed, resilient, and have a better incentivized structure than current software models. This is the first book that will help you to understand them and create your own. ~ Siraj Raval

Ultimately, I try to think of my application's main codebase as just stringing together various components and code from many sources. It just controls logic and flow. The real nitty-gritty is handled behind the scenes. This is why frameworks like Backbone are so important - they hide a lot of the details in the background and allow you to just focus on the flow and control of your application. ~ Robert Duchnik

Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases. ~ Norman Ralph Augustine

In the end, it all comes down to 0 and 1 ~ Vineet Goel