50 Quotes About Software-engineering

Google and Stack Overflow are great sources of opinions and information, but they’re no substitute for actual human experience.

Sometimes, the best thing you can do is just say, “I don’t know.

Without requirements and design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file.

The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.

The conclusion is simple: if a 200-man project has 25 managers who are the most competent and experienced programmers,fire the 175 troops and put the managers back to programming.

A boat without a captain is nothing more than a floating waiting room: unless someone grabs the rudder and starts the engine, it’s just going to drift along aimlessly with the current. A piece of software is just like that boat: if no one pilots it, you’re left with a group of engineers burning up valuable time, just sitting around waiting for something to happen (or worse, still writing code that you don’t need).

I becamea sponge. A new chapter began in my own education, and I dualmajored in corporate politics and software development in the realworld.

Engineering is a profession that can do the job of almost all other professions.

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.