Jim Horning Quotes

I have this hope that there is a better way. Higher-level tools that actually let you see the structure of the software more clearly will be of tremendous value.

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

Agitator and the Agitar Management Dashboard lower the barriers to accountability in software development and increase the value of developer testing.

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.

There is a strong movement towards increased accountability for software developers and software development organizations.

This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended.

I think it's a combination of technical and social factors that leads to all the defects in deployed software.

I started working on OpenBSD, and many earlier projects, because I have always felt that vendor systems were not designed for quality.

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.

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.

Software eventually and necessarily gained the same respect as any other discipline.

If we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent."

Excusing bad programming is a shooting offence, no matter what the circumstances.

The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.

After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.

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.

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

The best software companies in the world are the Indian companies like the Tatas, Infosys, and others.

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.

For every job you require a kind of mindset. To be a teacher one should be knowledgeable. To be a software engineer you should know computer data system analysis, computer language etc. So, my mindset is not aligned with politics.

For us, the real goal is to make it so that the software ecosystem is as healthy as possible.

At first I hoped that such a technically unsound project would collapse but I soon realized it was doomed to success. Almost anything in software can be implemented, sold, and even used given enough determination. There is nothing a mere scientist can say that will stand against the flood of a hundred million dollars. But there is one quality that cannot be purchased in this way - and that is reliability. The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich find most hard to pay.

Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics.

I'm not a real programmer. I throw together things until it works then I move on. The real programmers will say Yeah it works but you're leaking memory everywhere. Perhaps we should fix that. I'll just restart Apache every 10 requests.

Creeping featurism is a disease, fatal if not treated promptly. There are some cures, but, as usual, the best approach is to practice preventative medicine.