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Software Engineer Inspirational Quotes (501)

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When you're dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn't, no matter how good of a salesman you are.
Marc Andreessen
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My particular interest for the past couple of years has been to really think deeply about the big impendence mismatch we have between programming languages, C# in particular, and the database world, like SQL or, for that matter, the XML world, like XQuery and those languages that exist.
Anders Hejlsberg
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The way to do good basic design isn't actually to be really smart about it, but to try to have a few basic concepts.
Linus Torvalds
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The characteristic of great innovators and great companies is they see a space that others do not. They don't just listen to what people tell them they actually invent something new, something that you didn't know you needed, but the moment you see it, you say, 'I must have it.'
Eric Schmidt
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People will realize that software is not a product you use it to build a product.
Linus Torvalds
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We want to make sure the thing you're looking for is on Google 100 percent of the time.
Eric Schmidt
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The objective is not to make your links appear natural the objective is that your links are natural.
Matt Cutts
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Google (and pretty much every other major search engine) uses hyperlinks to help determine reputation. Links are usually editorial votes given by choice, and link-based analysis has greatly improved the quality of web search.
Matt Cutts
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There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.
Marc Andreessen
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During the whole 'Jeopardy' experience, I felt like I was living a bit of a double life, I would be secretly flying out to L.A. to tape new shows, hoping that none of my coworkers would notice the absence and figure out what was going on. 'Jeopardy' tries very hard to keep their secrets.
Ken Jennings
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Good software, like wine, takes time.
Joel Spolsky
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Security people are often the black-and-white kind of people that I can't stand. I think the OpenBSD crowd is a bunch of masturbating monkeys, in that they make such a big deal about concentrating on security to the point where they pretty much admit that nothing else matters to them.
Linus Torvalds
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SEO is not synonymous to JUNK E-MAIL.
Matt Cutts
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I don't know if there's enough vision. Industry wide, the apathy regarding this recent problem is already setting in - shiny things are happening elsewhere, people are forgetting.
Theo de Raadt
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The Waterfall Model is wrong and harmful we must outgrow it.
Fred Brooks
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The greatest risk we face in software development is that of overestimating our own knowledge.
Jim Highsmith
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The secret of Big Macs is that they're not very good, but every one is not very good in exactly the same way.
Joel Spolsky
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Even the best planning is not so omniscient as to get it right the first time.
Fred Brooks
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Every once in a while an issue comes up where I have to make a statement. I can't totally avoid all political issues, but I try my best to minimize them. When I do make a statement, I try to be fairly neutral.
Linus Torvalds
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I have condemned my kids to a lifetime of geographic illiteracy.
Ken Jennings
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Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C.
Linus Torvalds
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Software development takes immense intellectual effort. Even the best programmers can rarely sustain that level of effort for more than a few hours a day. Beyond that, they need to rest their brains a bit, which is why they always seem to be surfing the Internet or playing games when you barge in on them.
Joel Spolsky
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We considered ourselves Jordanian until the Jews returned to Jerusalem. Then all of the sudden we were Palestinians – they removed the star from the Jordanian flag and all at once we had a Palestinian flag.
Walid Shoebat
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I am more convinced than ever. Conceptual integrity is central to product quality.
Fred Brooks
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