I am a passionate reader of topics on new trends and best practices in software development. In my spare time, i like to read essays, listen podcasts, view webinars and examine source code of other developers, in order to learn from them. Every time I find a quote that proves motivating for me and other developers, I try to save it, and then share it with my friends and classmates. This work is a collection of twenty quotations that have impacted positively on my work style and way of thinking. The order they are published do not due to any selection criteria, it's just the order they were read and filed.

1. Great Software Development Quotes
Eudris Cabrera Rodríguez
Software Developer and Technology Enthusiast.
August 2013, Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic.

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3. “Software development is far more a
social activity than a technical one;
most projects fail because of
communication issues and social
dynamics, not because of a bad
technical decision”.
Martijn Verburg
JavaOne Rock Star

4. “It's kind of funny that developers
still explore new frameworks and
hope for magic solutions and forget
about core problems”.
Adam Bien
Java Champion

5. “We all know that, all things
being equal, cleaner code is better
than dirty code”.
Brian Goetz
Java Language Architect ,
author, and lecturer

6. “Achieving mastery of software
development requires continuous
repetition, practice and mentoring
from experts”.
Douglas C. Schmidt
Professor of Computer Science,
Senior Researcher at Vanderbilt
University and Author of many
papers and books.

7. “Although the code is the
ultimate truth, it's not the
whole truth, and as a result, an
incredible amount of design
information is kept in tribal
memory”.
Grady Booch
Chief Scientist, Software
Engineering in IBM Research

8. “It's hard to blame developers for
what is in hindsight a broken
programming model. Threads and
shared memory are too hard to get
right if all you have is locks”.
Cay Horstmann
Professor of Computer Science, San
Jose State University

9. “It’s hard enough for software
developers to write code that works
on their machine. But even when
that’s done, there’s a long journey
from there to software that’s
producing value since software
only produces value when it’s in
production”.
Martin Fowler
Author, speaker, and loud-mouth
on the design of enterprise
software.

10. “One of the problems facing
projects that mix many different
languages is how to get them all to
build together. When you mix
languages, you can end up with a
chicken and egg problem of what
to compile first”.
Dick Wall
Java Champion

11. “The one place where unit testing is
sorely lacking is with concurrent
code. There are some tools that
help find race conditions and
deadlocks, but they typically find
about a dozen faults per line of
code. With such an amount of false
positives, discovering a real
problem is impossible”.
Heinz Kabutz
Java Champion

12. “Distributed application
development often starts well.
And just as often it ends
badly”.
Ian Robinson
Director of Customer Success
for Neo Technology

13. “Distributed development is not
cheaper, much harder, but worth
it”.
Zack Urlocker
Veteran technology executive,
with 20 years of enterprise
software experience.

14. “In complex environments
(distributed teams, complex
application, advanced requirements
for compliance), it's essential to use
an integrated tool chain that glues
together the best-of-breed tools to
serve all stages of development in an
end-to-end approach”.
Michael Hüttermann
Java Champion

15. “Violating design principles or
writing overly complex code is often
the stumbling block to achieving
good performance”.
Kirk Pepperdine
JavaOne Rock Star / Java
Champion

16. “I believe that if all of us, when we
are programming, would only
think, ‘I need to do the simplest
program possible,’ we would be
happier and more successful”.
Jorge Vargas
Java Champion

17. “You will never waste time
learning another language. It's
always going to expand your range
and skills as a developer, even if
you don't end up using it day to
day”.
Dick Wall
Java Champion

18. “The cognitive requirements for
programming (software engineering)
are much more akin to those of
composing music, or painting a
picture than they are to building a
bridge or installing a drainage
culvert”. Linconln Baxter III
Senior Software Engineer at Red
Hat. Founder of http://ocpsoft.
org and open-source author /
advocate / speaker.

19. “Writing code is one of the most
amazing, creative things you can do
in life, many programmers actually
get the same euphoric feeling when
completing some piece of
functionality that others get from
exercise or music”.
Martijn Verburg
JavaOne Rock Star

20. “I think one of the most important
catalysts for productivity is to be
happy at your job. If you're not happy
at work, it’s unlikely you're going to
be inspired to be a more efficient
person”.
Matt Raible
Web architecture consultant
and frequent speaker.

21. “The world of programming and
software development can seem
intimidating. So many different
technologies, so much to learn, but
don't worry. You don't have to know
it all and the more you learn, the
more you will realize that everything
is just a variation of a few core
things”.
John Sonmez
Agilist, trainer, and active
Pluralsight author.

22. “To me coding has always been a
passion, while the job as a software
developer is just a job. I can't explain
why or how the passion for coding
started - it's always been like that since I
first tried programming”.
Anders Abel
Systems Architect and
Developer working in
Stockholm, Sweden.

23. References
Challenging the Diabolical Developer: A Conversation with
JavaOne Rock Star Martijn Verburg.
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/java/martijn-1865077.html
Dev of the Week: John Sonmez.
http://java.dzone.com/articles/dev-week-john-sonmez
Dev of the Week: Anders Abel.
http://java.dzone.com/articles/dev-week-anders-abel
Agile ALM: A Conversation with Java Champion and ALM
Expert Michael Hüttermann.
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/java/hutterman-1523643.html

24. Zeroturnaround Developer Productivity Report 2012.
● Extended Interview with Guest Geek Matt Raible.
● Extended Interview with Guest Geek Lincoln Baxter III.
Looking Ahead to Java SE 7 and 8: A Discussion with Oracle’
s Java Language Architect, Brian Goetz.
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/java/briangoetzchief-188795.html
From Java Platform Improvements to Better Teaching: A
Conversation With Java Champion Cay Horstmann.
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/javase/horstmann-qa-140483.html

25. Coding on Crete: An Interview with Java Specialist Heinz
Kabutz.
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/java/heinzkabutz-1899134.html
Java Champion Dick Wall on Genetics, the Java Posse, and
Alternative Languages (Part One).
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/java/dickwall1-1498851.html
An Interview with Java Champion Jorge Vargas.
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/java/vargas-1539026.html
Pattern-Oriented Software Architectures for Concurrent and
Networked Software.
https://class.coursera.org/posa-001/class/index

26. Java Performance Tuning: A Conversation With Java
Champion Kirk Pepperdine.
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/javase/pepperdine-qa-136431.html
http://martinfowler.com/delivery.html
Better Programming With Java EE: A Conversation With
Java Champion Adam Bien.
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/javase/bien-qa-138128.html
http://www.computer.org/portal/web/newwebinars/free

27. Books:
The New Kingmakers.
By Stephen O'Grady.
Service Design Patterns: Fundamental Design Solutions for
SOAP/WSDL and RESTful Web Services.
By Robert Daigneau.

28. Email:
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