20 Famous Software Disasters - DevTopics 20 Famous Software Disasters Humor, Quality, Software Add comments “To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer ” –Paul Ehrlich Software errors cost the U S economy $60 billion annually in rework, lost productivity and actual damages
20 Famous Software Disasters – Part 2 - DevTopics This is Part 2 of “20 Famous Software Disasters ” See also Part 1, Part 3 and Part 4 6 Wall Street Crash (1987) Cost: $500 billion in one day Disaster: On “Black Monday” (October 19, 1987), the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted 508 points, losing 22 6% of its total value The S P 500 dropped 20 4% This was the greatest loss Wall Street ever suffered in a single day Cause: A
Top 10 Software Innovators of All Time - DevTopics The triumphant invention of just 10 years ago is now considered “legacy” or even obsolete So making a lasting impression in the software business is a tough task indeed Following is my list of the top 10 software innovators of all time Inclusion on this list doesn’t mean the person came up with every idea or wrote every byte of code
101 Great Computer Programming Quotes - DevTopics As a result, some of the greatest minds of our time have pondered the significance of computers and software on the human condition Following are 101 great quotes about computers, with an emphasis on programming, since after all this is a software development site Computers “Computers are useless They can only give you answers ” (Pablo
20 Famous Software Disasters – Part 3 - DevTopics This is Part 3 of “20 Famous Software Disasters ” See also Part 1, Part 2 and Part 4 11 Skynet Brings Judgement Day (1997) Cost: 6 billion dead, near-total destruction of human civilization and animal ecosystems (fictional) Disaster: Human operators attempt to shut off the Skynet global computer network
20 Famous Software Disasters – Part 4 - DevTopics This is the final Part 4 of “20 Famous Software Disasters ” See also Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 16 Dot-Bomb Collapse (2000) Cost: $5 trillion in market value, thousands of companies failed Disaster: A speculative bubble from 1995–2001 fueled a rapid increase in venture capital investments and stock market values in the Internet and technology sectors The “dot-com bubble” began to
101 More Great Computer Quotes - DevTopics In response to my original article, “ 101 Great Computer Programming Quotes,” José M Aguilar doubled the fun with “ 101 More Great Computer Quotes,” which was translated, edited and republished here by Timm Martin (and Google Translator) with permission from Mr Aguilar Computing “I do not fear computers I fear lack of them ” — Isaac Asimov “A computer once beat me at chess
Software - devtopics. com Software errors cost the U S economy $60 billion annually in rework, lost productivity and actual damages We all know software bugs can be annoying, but faulty software can also be expensive, embarrassing, destructive and deadly Following are 20 famous software “disasters” in chronological order: Continue reading »
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Quality - DevTopics 20 Famous Software Disasters – Part 2 Humor, Quality, Software 9 Comments » This is Part 2 of “20 Famous Software Disasters ” See also Part 1, Part 3 and Part 4 Continue reading »