Azim Premji Quotes

Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence.

Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.

I have been a systems engineer, systems administrator, a senior adviser for the Central Intelligence Agency, a solutions consultant and a telecommunications information systems officer.

I'm not an IT expert myself.

I'm really good at making software for publishing.

The process of software development doesn't feel any better than it did a generation ago.

I worked in IT for about three years for a tiny firm with ten other people.

We shifted our philosophy from being a computer mapping group that would support planners to the idea of building actual software that would be well engineered. Because at that time, our software was not well-engineered at all; it was basically built with project funding and for project work, largely by ourselves.

I work on OpenBSD fulltime, as the project leader. I set some directions, increase communication between the developers, and try to be involved in nearly every aspect of the base system.

If you know how to make software, then you can create big things.

As digital equipment replaces the jobs of routine workers and lower-level professionals, technicians are needed to install, monitor, repair, test, and upgrade all the equipment.

Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings.

You can’t really understand the challenges involved with any major tech project until you start trying to build it.

Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.

I think the thing that our government lacks - just about more than anything else - is technological competence. We have some of the greatest white-hat hackers in the world here in the U.S., but the government seems to be technologically illiterate.

Although the most advanced software innovation may take place in big cities with research universities, there is a lot of work concerning the application of software to business processes and the administration and maintenance of software systems that can be done remotely.

Complexity control is the central problem of writing software in the real world

I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up.

I would be better at my job if I were technical.

Technology requires knowledge and expertise more than it requires money.

I feel lucky because earlier in my career, I found what I liked to do; it's build software that you see your friends using on the street, and they like it.

I'm not a programmer myself, but I am a very, very picky end user of technology. I like my machines to work they way they're supposed to, all the time.

Yet, I am convinced that there is a need for high quality software, and the time will come when it will be recognized that it is worth investing effort in its development and in using a careful, structured approach based on safe, structured languages.

I'm kind of a retired software engineer. I don't write code anymore.

I'm an engineer by trade, and what engineers do is they go and build, and they don't think a lot about storytelling.