Quoting Charles Simonyi (1986): "SIMONYI: We have great difficulty in predicting the time it will take to write a program. There are valid reasons why this is

Quoting Charles Simonyi (1986): "SIMONYI: We have great difficulty in predicting the time it will take to write a program. There are valid reasons why this is so. It doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try our best to predict, because there are reasons why a prediction might be useful, just like when a weather prediction has economic as well as other benefits. Really good programs will live forever and take forever to write, at least as long as the hardware exists, and maybe even longer." Source: https://programmersatwork.wordpress.com/programmers-at-work-charles-simonyi/ https://programmersatwork.wordpress.com/programmers-at-work-... (great book, btw!).