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“After graduation, I took a job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in software development. I don't think I was there more than a month.”

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Author:John Katzman

“Can a one judge sitting somewhere in a trial court issue an order that says nobody in the world is allowed to have, to use, to improve or to develop software for playing multimedia content without the permission of the manufacturers of the content themselves? .. This is an astonishing development in the course of our understanding of what we call the copyright bargain, the relationship between authors' rights, publishers' leverages and consumers' needs.”

“Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor. Particularly on large projects, each of the following mismanagement actions has often been responsible for doubling software development costs.”

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Author:Barry Boehm

“It's harder than you might think to squander millions of dollars, but a flawed software development process is a tool well suited to the job.”

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Book:The Inmates are Running the Asylum

Source: The Inmates are Running the Asylum

“In 1991, I co-founded my first start-up, Ink Development, which made software for an early tablet computer.”

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Author:Pierre Omidyar

“Trying to apply formal methods to all software projects is just as bad as trying to apply code-and-fix development to all projects.”

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Book:After the Gold Rush: Creating a True Profession of Software Engineering

Source: After the Gold Rush: Creating a True Profession of Software Engineering

“High-quality software is not expensive. High-quality software is faster and cheaper to build and maintain than low-quality software, from initial development all the way through total cost of ownership.”

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Author:Capers Jones

“Imagine the disincentive to software development if after months of work another company could come along and copy your work and market it under its own name...without legal restraints to such copying, companies like Apple could not afford to advance the state of the art.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“With software, you really can replicate and do a lot of very real and active development in parallel, and actually try it out and see what works.”

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Author:Linus Torvalds

“Software development takes immense intellectual effort. Even the best programmers can rarely sustain that level of effort for more than a few hours a day. Beyond that, they need to rest their brains a bit, which is why they always seem to be surfing the Internet or playing games when you barge in on them.”

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Author:Joel Spolsky

“There are a variety of techniques for breaking software down into pieces and making software development more efficient. Many of these techniques have been sort of... and everybody got excited about but very little benefit was actually derived once the thing was put into practice.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“There is no one "root of all evil" in software development. Design is hard in many ways. People tend to underestimate the intellectual and practical difficulties involved in building a significant system involving software. It is not and will not be reduced to a simple mechanical "assembly line" process. Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.”

“I would definitely like to work at Microsoft, since software development and exploring new technologies has always been my passion, and Microsoft is best when it comes to next-generation software technologies.”

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Author:Arfa Karim

“Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit.”

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Book:Snow Crash

Source: Snow Crash