Software Quotes

Here are some software quotes I came across and very much agree with and (try to) follow:

• The trick is to fix the problem you have, rather than the problem you want. — Bram Cohen

• The purpose of software engineering is to control complexity, not to create it. — Pamela Zave

• When you feel the need to write a comment, first try to refactor the code so that any comment becomes superfluous. — Martin Fowler

• Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming. — C. A. R. Hoare

• Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away. — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

• One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code. — Ken Thompson

• There is nothing more unproductive than to build something efficiently that should not have been built at all. — Milt Bryce

• The ultimate management sin is wasting people’s time. — T. DeMarco and T. Lister

• The fastest algorithm can frequently be replaced by one that is almost as fast and much easier to understand. — D. Jones

• Successful software always gets changed. — Frederick P. Brooks

• You’re bound to be unhappy if you optimize everything. — Donald E. Knuth

• A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. — Albert Einstein

• Everything Should Be Made as Simple as Possible, But Not Simpler. — Albert Einstein