Software Engineering Quotes

You must excuse my gruff conduct,” the watchdog said, after they’d been driving for some time, “but you see it’s traditional for watchdogs to be ferocious.

Programmers are not mathematicians, no matter how much we wish and wish for it.

Richard P. Gabriel

Technical staff were fairly good at estimation but were poor at defending their estimates

Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others

If it hurts, do it more frequently, and bring the pain forward.

The business we're in is more sociological than technological, more dependent on workers' abilities to communicate with each other than their abilities to communicate with machines.

Software testing is a sport like hunting, it's bughunting.

How Ironic, when you do business you create exceptions to create new opportunities, when you write code (do a job) you handle exception to make it clean.