Software Engineering Quotes

“The programmer's task is not to write programs but to design them.”

“The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one.”

“There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.”

“It is a myth that we can get systems right the first time. Instead, we should make systems that are easy to change.”

“The art of programming is the art of organizing complexity.”

“Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.”

“The primary goal of software design is to manage complexity.”

“Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer.”