Jack Dangermond 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.

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.

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

Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.

First, I'd like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the ISO standard.

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 have never written a line of commercial code in my life. Nor should I.

The most sought-after candidates in the world today by companies like mine are people who make computer software - there's a shortage of talent.

I know one business, and that's how to make software.

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

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.

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

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

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

I designed and developed an unbelievable number of applications early in my life.

All software sucks.

When I worked at Microsoft, I got to go and visit a bunch of different companies. Probably a hundred different companies a year. You'd see all the different ways they'd work. The guys who did Ventura Publisher one day, and then United Airlines the next. You'd see the 12 guys in Texas doing Doom, and then you'd go see Aetna Life Insurance.

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

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

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.

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.

"Legacy code" often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.

Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one.

Defect-free software does not exist.

If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.