Software Maintenance Quotes Posted by melisa Thursday Feb 5, 2009 Tags: Programmers Quotes Comments: No Comments
If software were as unreliable as economic theory, there wouldn’t be a plane made of anything other than paper that could get off the ground. — Jim Fawcette
Just remember: you’re not a “dummy,” no matter what those computer books claim. The real dummies are the people who, though technically expert, couldn’t design hardware and software that’s usable by normal consumers if their lives depended upon it. — Walter Mossberg
Software people would never drive to the office if building engineers and automotive engineers were as cavalier about buildings and autos as the software “engineer” is about his software. — Henry Baker
Knowing the syntax of Java does not make someone a software engineer. — John Knight
Although about three million computers get sold every year in China, people don’t pay for the software. Someday they will, though. And as long as they’re going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They’ll get sort of addicted, and then we’ll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade. — Bill Gates
There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.
— Bill Gates
In a software project team of 10, there are probably 3 people who produce enough defects to make them net negative producers. — Gordon Schulmeyer
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. — Martin Golding
There is no code so big, twisted, or complex that maintenance can’t make it worse. — Gerald Weinberg
If stupidity got us into this mess, why can’t it get us out? — Will Rogers
Software is like sex: It’s better when it’s free.
— Linus Torvalds
