Simple Software Quotes

#1. We provide a breadth of live and catch-up content - what we define as this season's content, none of which is available in the Netflix rerun world.

Brian L. Roberts

#2. Conversational journey to find knowledge makes attaining it that much more satisfying,

Amish Tripathi

#3. Going viral isn't random, magic, or luck. It's a science.

Jonah Berger

#4. One luminary clock against the sky
Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.

Robert Frost

#5. Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theorist.

John Eaton

#6. Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.

Bill Gates

#7. When you write a piece of software you assume a certain type of hardware. If you assume hardware that's too powerful then you can't sell many copies cause very few people have that machine. If you assume hardware that's too simple your product can't do as much.

Bill Gates

#8. We took the brains out of the set-top box and put it in the cloud. Having our software in the cloud gives consumers the ability to click their remote control and navigate through thousands of choices in a simple and elegant way. That's magic.

Brian L. Roberts

#9. In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold;
Alike fantastic, if too new, or old:
Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Alexander Pope

#10. To read is to cover one's face. And to write is to show it.

Alejandro Zambra

#11. Mozart is always a bit of a challenge - you know, even though it is often given to very young singers, it is actually the most complicated to sing in many instances.

Sarah Brightman

#12. We can't ever forget that the Internet now is just a staid utility. The exciting platforms are software applications that are very, very simple.

Mark Cuban

#13. The conclusion is simple: if a 200-man project has 25 managers who are the most competent and experienced programmers,
fire the 175 troops and put the managers back to programming.

Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

#14. The problem is not software 'friendliness'. It is conceptual clarity. A globe does not say, 'good morning'. It is simple and clear, not 'friendly'.

Ted Nelson

#15. Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.

George A. Moore

#16. The software is where the magic is. If you're going to have all this power be simple enough, appealing enough and cool enough, it's going to be because the software is right.

Bill Gates

#17. The only way to write complex software that won't fall on its face is to hold its global complexity down - to build it out of simple pieces connected by well-defined interfaces, so that most problems are local and you can have some hope of fixing or optimizing a part without breaking the whole

Eric S. Raymond

#18. There are two ways of constructing a piece of software: One is to make it so simple that there are obviously no errors, and the other is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious errors.

Tony Hoare

#19. All coaches are thinking men, or else they wouldn't survive.

Joe Paterno

#20. A software system is transparent when you can look at it and immediately see what is going on. It is simple when what is going on is uncomplicated enough for a human brain to reason about all the potential cases without strain

Eric S. Raymond

#21. The two [separate] UIs are both incredibly simple and don't even look
like computer programs; they barely need menus. [When combined, they]
suddenly look like software.

Havoc Pennington

#22. Still, shifting my thinking on the Bible did not mean I was losing my faith in God. In fact, I had the growing sense that God was inviting me down this path, encouraging it even.

Peter Enns

#23. The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.

Grady Booch

#24. The Postfix security model is based on keeping software simple and stupid.

Wietse Venema

#25. ...I'm not saying simple code takes less time to write. You'd think it would since you end up with less total code, but a good solution isn't an accretion of code, it's a distillation of it.

Robert Nystrom

#26. I hear Jesus telling us to stop negotiating with Him, to stop offering something we think we have in exchange for His blessings.

Larry Crabb

#27. There are two methods in software design. One is to make the program so simple, there are obviously no errors. The other is to make it so complicated, there are no obvious errors.

Tony Hoare

#28. Ironically, the thing that will likely make the least improvement in the ease of use of software-based products is new technology. There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.

Alan Cooper

#29. The finest pieces of software are those where one individual has a complete sense of exactly how the program works. To have that, you have to really love the program and concentrate on keeping it simple, to an incredible degree.

Bill Gates