Quotes About Software

#1. The beginning of 2002 Apple faced a challenge. The seamless connection between your iPod, iTunes software, and computer made it easy to manage the music you

Walter Isaacson

#2. I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement.

Andy Hertzfeld

#3. Testing was never going to be fashionable, but you could hardly run a respectable software development shop with no testing effort at all.

Stephen Baxter

#4. Bloated software causes IT stress farts.

Kevin Focke

#5. I believe that software, and in fact entire companies, should be run in a way that assumes that the sum of the talent of people outside your walls is greater than the sum of the few you have inside. None of us are as smart as all of us.

Matt Mullenweg

#6. Software development was insecurities all the way down. Even

Ken MacLeod

#7. We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.

Douglas Coupland

#8. What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time?

James Alan Gardner

#9. I know about the tech industry in that I follow what apps are hot and software development. I know my way around different browsers. I know how to restart a computer.

T. J. Miller

#10. To most Christians, the Bible is like a software license. Nobody actually reads it. They just scroll to the bottom and click 'I agree'.

Bill Maher

#11. The process of software development doesn't feel any better than it did a generation ago.

Rob Pike

#12. Uruguay is one of the biggest producers of software. We are breaking with the neoliberal model. We do not believe in free trade.

Hugo Chavez

#13. robots are "only one software upgrade away" from full autonomy, as Scientific American has recently argued.

David A. Mindell

#14. Never in the annals of software engineering was so much owed by so many to so few lines of code

Martin Fowler

#15. If you love a medium made of software, there's a danger that you will become entrapped in someone else's recent careless thoughts. Struggle against that.

Jaron Lanier

#16. We do care about control and privacy. It's one of the reasons we are so focused on having our systems be open source, so you or someone technically savvy you know can verify what the software is doing.

Mitchell Baker

#17. Apple has a complex suite of proprietary technologies, both in hardware (like superior touchscreen materials) and software (like touchscreen interfaces purpose-designed for specific materials).

Peter Thiel

#18. As a person with the retentive mental capacity of a goldfish and a dislike of repetition, I frequently make use of the thesaurus built into my Microsoft Word U.K. Software.

Meg Rosoff

#19. Every young person gets so excited about new software packages and new technology.

John Lasseter

#20. The free software community should be supported more widely. I'm totally in solidarity with what they do.

Laura Poitras

#21. Software substitution, whether it's for drivers or waiters or nurses - it's progressing. Technology over time will reduce demand for jobs, particularly at the lower end of skill set.

Bill Gates

#22. A few years ago, it would have been unthinkable to implement server software in JavaScript.

Guillermo Rauch

#23. Cooperation is just like two pagodas - one hardware and one software. Combined, we can take the leadership position in the world.

Wen Jiabao

#24. I think there's a great homogenizing force that software imposes on people and limits the way they think about what's possible on the computer. Of course, it's also a great liberating force that makes possible, you know, publishing and so forth, and standards, and so on.

Golan Levin

#25. Facial recognition software is already quite accurate in measuring unchanging and unique ratios between facial features that identify you as you. It's like a fingerprint.

Jan Chipchase

#26. Siemens had to go to every deployment of their software worldwide and change the password. Getting

Ted Koppel

#27. There is only one real computer - the universe - whose hardware is made up of non-spatial states of consciousness and software is made up of superhuman as well as non-superhuman thoughts.

Kedar Joshi

#28. GoPro's capture devices and Kolor's software will combine to deliver exciting and highly accessible solutions for capturing, creating, and sharing spherical content.

Nick Woodman

#29. Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not.

Marc Andreessen

#30. The hardest part of the software task is arriving at a complete and consistent specification, and much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification.

Fred Brooks

#31. If something is expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?

Bill Gates

#32. When I was 24, I co-founded a company called Athenahealth which built the first Web-based software and back-office service suite for doctors' offices.

Todd Park

#33. High-quality software is not expensive. High-quality software is faster and cheaper to build and maintain than low-quality software, from initial development all the way through total cost of ownership.

Capers Jones

#34. A smartphone is a computer - it's not built using a computer - the job it does is the job of being a computer. So, everything we say about computers, that the software you run should be free - you should insist on that - applies to smart phones just the same. And likewise to those tablets.

Richard Stallman

#35. Software engineering is not about right and wrong but only better and worse

Ellen Ullman

#36. The digital keys in a user's wallet are completely independent of the bitcoin protocol and can be generated and managed by the user's wallet software without reference to the blockchain or access to the Internet.

Andreas M. Antonopoulos

#37. Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.

Adam Osborne

#38. I'm still learning. I've never done a digital project before. And I'm pretty sure I did things to the software that weren't supposed to be done.

Don Hertzfeldt

#39. Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.

Richard Stallman

#40. I have a CS degree and a history that includes working as a software developer and being a computer magazine columnist back during the 1990s. I guess I simply paid attention to the social effects of the IT revolution as I lived through it.

Charles Stross

#41. The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.

Marc Andreessen

#42. I think we're proving ourselves as we go along. The past several months our strategy has been evolutionary - making maximum advantage of our client browser, as well as our enterprise software for people who want to build Web sites.

Jim Barksdale

#43. My reply is: the software has no known bugs, therefore it has not been updated.

Wietse Venema

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

Miguel De Icaza

#45. When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.

Bill Gates

#46. At one point, the software declared that each Roadster should cost about $68,000, which would leave Tesla making about $30,000 per vehicle. Everyone knew the figure was wrong, but it got reported to the board anyway.

Ashlee Vance

#47. Imagine the disincentive to software development if after months of work another company could come along and copy your work and market it under its own name ... without legal restraints to such copying, companies like Apple could not afford to advance the state of the art.

Bill Gates

#48. There is one major problem with anti-virus software: It needs updating. Users cannot be relied upon to have even the anti-virus software in the first place, let alone be able or willing to pay for the updates.

Glenn Turner

#49. And do you know who wrote much of the software that allows you to access the Internet? Bill Joy.

Malcolm Gladwell

#50. Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.

Nathan Myhrvold

#51. I believe our basic information, our 'software', should be free and open for everyone to play with, to compete with, to try and make products from. I do not believe it should be under the control of one person.

John Sulston

#52. With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.

Adam Osborne

#53. When it comes to software, I much prefer free software, because I have very seldom seen a program that has worked well enough for my needs, and having sources available can be a life-saver.

Linus Torvalds

#54. The people kvetching about the new editing software never mastered the old editing software either.

John E. McIntyre

#55. As the web becomes more and more of a part of our every day lives, it would be a horrible tragedy if it was locked up inside of companies and proprietary software.

Matt Mullenweg

#56. Without the adjustment, you are working under a lie. Everyone knows it and has to hide to protect themselves. This is no way to get good software done and deployed;

Kent Beck

#57. Asked about the fact that Apple's iTunes software for Windows computers was extremely popular, Jobs joked, 'It's like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell.

Walter Isaacson

#58. When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price.

Richard M. Stallman

#59. Yes, virus companies are playing on your fears to try to sell you bs protection software for Android, RIM and IOS. They are charlatans and scammers. IF you work for a company selling virus protection for android, rim or IOS you should be ashamed of yourself.

Chris DiBona

#60. Compounding the cost, most mapping software is processor-intense.

Robert Love

#61. There's nothing more frustrating than seeing cynics sit there and say, 'Well, nobody can make any more money because Microsoft and Intel own everything.' Is the software industry mature, or is it embryonic? I would say it's embryonic. There will be a hundred more Microsofts, not just one.

Michael J. Saylor

#62. Because software is all about scale. The larger you are, the more profitable you are. If we sell twice as much as software, it doesn't cost us twice as much to build that software. So the more customers you have, the more scale you have. The larger you are, the more profitable you are.

Larry Ellison

#63. The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for. By all means, let them send me money if it makes them feel better.

Larry Wall

#64. Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.

Richard Stallman

#65. We're not in hardware for hardware's sake. We're in hardware to be able to express all our platform and productivity software in a way that's unique.

Satya Nadella

#66. Our strategy in dealing with patents in Mono is the same strategy that any other software developer would take. In the event of a patent claim, we will try to find prior art to the claim of the patent.

Miguel De Icaza

#67. I'm really good at making software for publishing.

Matt Mullenweg

#68. People can criticize Microsoft for supporting this TV thing for the past eight years, but it is a long-term bet, There is not any other software business that is as dedicated to the vision of the TV and the PDA [personal digital assistant] as we are.

Bill Gates

#69. All the reasons that have made software so successful are beginning to happen with hardware. So much can be done so quickly, prototyped so rapidly, and the costs are so low.

Sam Altman

#70. A rational model of software is to design it quickly - the economic pressure to improvise presents an interesting challenge.

Kent Beck

#71. I made my money with software - encoded knowledge without which few products and services can exist today - and so it seemed imperative that this would be the field where I would give something back.

Hasso Plattner

#72. Free open-source software, by its nature, is unlikely to feature secret back doors that lead directly to Langley, Va.

Evgeny Morozov

#73. The task of the software development team is to engineer the illusion of simplicity.

Grady Booch

#74. This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended.

Wietse Venema

#75. We have a company, Geometric Software, which is into engineering services software. We have a company called Nature's Basket, which is into gourmet retailing. Both are specialized companies.

Adi Godrej

#76. In June 1991 he took the drastic step of asking a friend to post PGP on a Usenet bulletin board. PGP is just a piece of software, and so from the bulletin board it could be downloaded by anyone for free. PGP was now loose on the Internet.

Simon Singh

#77. Before I became a game designer, I was a software engineer.

Jane Jensen

#78. This document describes progress to date in establishing a defensive network capable of repelling wide-scale incursions by reconfiguring the national closed-circuit television surveillance network as a software-controlled look-to-kill multiheaded basilisk. To

Charles Stross

#79. Virtual reality is a tough sell for a software developer. They have to convince investors that not only are they going to build a good game, which is what they normally have to do, they have to convince them that it's going to be a good game and that virtual reality will be successful.

Palmer Luckey

#80. Trying to apply formal methods to all software projects is just as bad as trying to apply code-and-fix development to all projects.

Steve McConnell

#81. I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.

Larry Wall

#82. I think I am very goal oriented. I'd like to win the America's cup. I'd like Oracle to be the No 1 software company in the world. I still think it is possible to beat Microsoft.

Larry Ellison

#83. The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now.

Dave Rowntree

#84. My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning.

Safra A. Catz

#85. I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software ... that you can't fully test it.

Will Wright

#86. Software companies should take more responsibility for security holes, especially in browsers and e-mail clients. There are some straightforward things the industry should be doing right now to fix things, and I don't know why they haven't been done yet.

Tim Berners-Lee

#87. When people look for products and services online, they seldom convert on their first visit. In fact, depending on the industry, 95 to 98 percent of people leave a website without taking the desired business action, such as make a purchase, fill out a lead form, download software, and so on.

Adam Berke

#88. If you think about all the light that enters - that enters the lens of a camera, that's much more than a photo. The light field is all the higher-dimensional information that's lost in a regular photo. When we record all this information, that provides us the opportunity in software after the fact.

Ren Ng

#89. The job of the average manager requires a shift in focus every few minutes. The job of the average software developer requires that the developer not shift focus more often than every few hours.

Steve McConnell

#90. We're focused on providing innovations in software, driving the continuous improvement for a much better experience, and there's a lot going on here that speaks to this decade and what's going to happen in this decade. We can kind of sum it up in terms of saying, "Yes, you can."

Bill Gates

#91. It's called 'reading'. It's how people install new software into their brains.

Randy Glasbergen

#92. It's time to re-appreciate the original software: paper.

Dale Dauten

#93. We support about 5,000 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) with software, training, and technical support. We provide our software at virtually no cost to them, and they're lighting up the world with what they do.

Jack Dangermond

#94. Duplication may be the root of all evil in software. Many principles and practices have been created for the purpose of controlling or eliminating it.

Robert C. Martin

#95. Part of what software has to do is explain itself. So

Paul Graham

#96. I was enraptured by the brain and how it could misfire, but it wasn't just the hardware that intrigued me, it was the software with the bugs.

Julie Holland

#97. While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers.

Bill Gates

#98. Education should not be about building more schools and maintaining a system that dates back to the Industrial Revolution. We can achieve so much more, at unmatched scale with software and interactive learning.

Naveen Jain

#99. Google did a great job hacking the Web to create search - and then monetizing search with advertising. And Apple did a great job humanizing hardware and software so that formerly daunting computers and applications could become consumer-friendly devices - even a lifestyle brand.

Douglas Rushkoff

#100. Software is now so complex - requiring so many gazillions of tiny files all over your computer - that most consumers don't want to bother to know what's really going on.

Clive Thompson