Top 77 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Software developers - Page 2

I love software, because if you can imagine something, you can build it.

You’re either the one that creates the automation or you’re getting automated.

I can direct dial today a man my parents warred with. They wanted to kill him, I want to sell software to him.

If Sun were to hand the management of Java over to a committee of monkeys, would it be more successful?

If there's only one answer, then this must not be a very interesting topic.

It seems to me to be important to distinguish a good idea from poor implementations of it

What held people together was the belief that you're really going to change the world. I think that's the nature of many startups. You believe that what you are doing is going to have a dramatic impact. You might not exactly know how, but you really have a belief. That keeps you going and going through many changes and a lot of uncertainty.

In software, we rarely have meaningful requirements. Even if we do, the only measure of success that matters is whether our solution solves the customer's shifting idea of what their problem is.

If C++ has taught me one thing, it's this: Just because the system is consistent doesn't mean it's not the work of Satan.

This is an important part of the Internet Dynamic - providing opportunity and not guarantees.

I think Chris Roberts is one of them, Will Wright's another, Peter Molyneux is another. They clearly exist, but on the whole, I think that the design talent in our industry is dramatically lower than we need, as an industry. It's a very hard skill to learn.

Simple, not easy. There's a difference.

I consider C++ the most significant technical hazard to the survival of your project and do so without apologies.

Branching is easy. Merging is hard.

You can walk with the Shintoist through his sacred groves, or chant an affirmation with the Hindu on the banks of the Ganges...and still be a student of Unity... As the Christ becomes greater to you in Unity, the Buddha also becomes greater, and the greater the Buddha becomes, the greater the Christ becomes.

A well-functioning team of adequate people will complete a project almost regardless of the process or technology they are asked to use (although the process and technology may help or hinder them along the way).

When I ask candidates to tell me about their weaknesses, I am hoping for a wise, honest, and self-confident answer. When I hear a candidate rationally admit a weakness, I am impressed. When I hear a candidate duck the question with language straight out of a book, I start thinking about the next candidate.