The one uncontested difference between software and other engineering is velocity: changing software costs seconds where changing a physical system costs weeks and thousands of dollars.

Added to korrents 20 Jan 2021 · How quotes work · Something wrong? Tell us

Related korrents

Our reading — they may agree, disagree or merely touch the same thing. Closest first: a shared subject counts for most, then how near the wording is.

• Software's real advantage over physical engineering is consistency: a component does what it is specified to do every time, while physical materials only fall within a tolerance. HWHillel Wayne20 Jan 2021similar wording
• The usual trade-off between quality and cost does not apply to software: high internal quality is the cheaper way to produce it. MFMartin Fowler29 May 2019similar wording
• Software's constraints are soft where traditional engineering's are hard, and that is one of the few real differences between them. HWHillel Wayne20 Jan 2021similar wording

See this on the map →