Development Efficiency Quotes

The community of developers whose work you see on the Web, who probably don't know what ADO or UML or JPA even stand for, deploy better systems at less cost in less time at lower risk than we see in the Enterprise. This is true even when you factor in the greater flexibility and velocity of startups.

We flew down weekly to meet with IBM, but they thought the way to measure software was the amount of code we wrote, when really the better the software, the fewer lines of code.

People are building the software and so having the pieces be such that a single person understands all the tradeoffs and everything that's going on in a piece is extremely valuable. It avoids getting into an experimental mode where you're just trying things out. That never works.

There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written.

Python is an experiment in how much freedom programmers need. Too much freedom and nobody can read another's code; too little and expressiveness is endangered.

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

We probably release 1% of the products that we are working on.

We're systems software people ourselves. We wanted a language to make our lives better.

If you develop 10 things, and you can get two or three made, that's a very high ration.