SOFTWARE ENGINEERING MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES

“Software engineering is the closest thing we have to a superpower.” – Drew Houston

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” – Alan Kay

“Great software, like great literature, requires the ability to add meaning and purpose to raw information.” – Grady Booch

“Good software, like a good suit, only looks great if it fits you.” – Joel Spolsky

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs

“The best error message is the one that never shows up.” – Thomas Fuchs

“The only constant in software development is change.” – Deb Mednick

“Don’t worry if it doesn’t work right. If everything did, you would be out of a job.” – Mosher’s Law of Software Engineering

“To me programming is more than an important practical art. It is also a gigantic undertaking in the foundations of knowledge” – Grace Hopper

“There’s nothing quite as satisfying as building software that millions of people use.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“Every great developer you know got there by solving problems they were unqualified to solve until they actually did it.” – Patrick McKenzie EMOTIONAL SELF CONTROL QUOTES

“Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but rather when there is nothing more to take away.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“The art of engineering is to make it work, make it simple, and make it perform well.” – Emile Puiforcat

“The best software engineers are lazy, inquisitive, and impatient.” – Larry Wall

“If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.” – Edsger Dijkstra

“Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.” – Bill Gates

“Simplicity is the soul of efficiency.” – Austin Freeman

“The function of good software is to make the complex appear simple.” – Grady Booch

“The best software developers are those who follow the Tao of programming, knowing when to act and when to refrain from acting.” – Lao Tzu

“Software is like entropy: It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.” – Norman Ralph Augustine

“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” – Albert Einstein