Here is a small collection of quotes related to software development :

"If you can't explain something to a six-year-old, you really don't understand it yourself."
-- Albert Einstein

"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization."
-- Gerald Weinberg

"Quality, far beyond that required by the end user, is a means to higher productivity."
-- Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister

"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper."
-- Francis Bacon

"A scientist builds in order to learn, an engineer learns in order to build."
-- Fred Brooks

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
-- Winston Churchill

"All rising to a great place is by a winding stair."
-- Francis Bacon

"A problem well stated is a problem half solved."
-- Charles F. Kettering

"Adding people to a late project makes it later."
-- Fred Brooks

"Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own."
-- H. G. Bohn

"The gap between the best software engineering practice and the average practice is very wide--perhaps wider than in any other engineering discipline."
-- Fred Brooks

"We don't work overtime so much to get the work done on time as to shield ourselves from the blame when the work inevitably doesn't get done on time."
-- Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister

"In other words -- and this is the rock-solid principle on which the Corporation's Galaxywide success is founded -- their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws."
-- Douglas Adams

"Make things as simple as possible -- but no simpler."
-- Albert Einstein

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