Software Design Quotes

Software Design Quote of the day

Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry

Hiring people to write code to sell is not the same as hiring people to design and build durable, usable, dependable software.

If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.

Up to a point, it is better to just let the snags [bugs] be there than to spend such time in design that there are none.

Listening, Testing, Coding, Designing. That's all there is to software. Anyone who tells you different is selling something.

Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

Find the simplest model that is not a lie is the key to better software design.

...it is simplicity that is difficult to make.

As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it.

Software and hardware design is less different than software designers think, but more different than hardware designers think.

The designer of a new kind of system must participate fully in the implementation.

It's hard to read through a book on the principles of magic without glancing at the cover periodically to make sure it isn't a book on software design.

I no longer teach meditation, only software design.

I have found that meditation has helped me with my academic career and has given me insights into musical composition and software design.

The hardware and the software will come from Silicon Valley. But the watch case, the dial, the design, the idea, the crown, that part of the watch will, of course, be Swiss.

...your Web browser is Ronald Reagan.

There's a saying in the software design industry: "Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two."

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

Software will give you respect, but hardware will give you the Power.