Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.

  • -- Wietse Venema 维埃茨·威内玛

软件业务的大部分工作都是维护已经存在的代码。

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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.

然而,我相信对高质量软件的需求是存在的,总有一天人们会认识到,在开发和使用基于安全的结构化语言的谨慎的结构化方法方面进行投资是值得的。

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

我说不出这种力量是什么;我所知道的是,它的存在,只有当一个人处于一种他确切知道他想要什么,并下定决心不放弃直到他找到它的精神状态时,它才会成为可能。

It's hard to say, 'I don't believe in God.' I would love to know if God exists. But it's a very difficult thing for me to believe.

很难说,‘我不相信上帝。“我很想知道上帝是否存在。但我很难相信。

Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.

今天编写的每一个软件都可能侵犯他人的专利。