Software Business Quotes

#1. Open source is an intellectual-property destroyer, I can't imagine something that could be worse than this for the software business and the intellectual-property business.

Jim Allchin

#2. There's a fundamental problem with how the software business does things. We're asking people who are masters of hard-edged technology to design the soft, human side of software as well. As a result, they make products that are really cool - if you happen to be a software engineer.

Alan Cooper

#3. Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.

Wietse Venema

#4. 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

#5. We've been in the Mac software business for more than 20 years. And it's been a great business for us.

Scott Erickson

#6. For whatever reason somebody can be convinced to buy a PC, it opens up a whole new market for all of us in the software business.

Kevin O'Leary

#7. In the software business there are many enterprises for which it is not clear that science can help them; that science should try is not clear either.

Edsger Dijkstra

#8. You can have an Apple in the phone business, or a RIM, and they can do very well, but when 1.3 billion phones a year are all smart, the software that's gonna be most popular in those phones is gonna be software that's sold by somebody who doesn't make their own phones.

Steve Ballmer

#9. I am involved in the creation of software, and I'm also in the music business.

Frederick Lenz

#10. SAP is becoming the standard for business software. Oracle is in a state of chaos.

Bill Vaughan

#11. Heavy investments in information technology have delivered disappointing results - largely because companies tend to use technology to mechanize old ways of doing business ... Instead of embedding outdated processes in silicon and software, we should obliterate them and start over.

Michael Martin Hammer

#12. By leveraging the Unicode Standard, Progress Software is enabling its ASPs (Application Service Providers) and ISVs (Independent Software Vendors) to quickly and efficiently deliver their business applications to the Internet and to users around the world.

Joseph Alsop

#13. CRM is rather boring in itself.
It's the fortunes you can build using CRM that makes it so interesting.

Michael McCafferty

#14. 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

#15. So many commercial orgs have software where you can come and modify it, but they still control everything. And what's controlled is very clearly what's good for their business, or if they're more progressive, their view of what's good for the Internet.

Mitchell Baker

#16. More importantly, our software worked. I don't just mean that it didn't bump, or that it performed according to the written specifications, or that it was efficient in producing reports. It really worked

Eliyahu M. Goldratt

#17. Software development is a cruel business. Every detail matters - just

Erik Peterson

#18. Introducing non-copy-protected software into this kind of an environment may be the single most boneheaded thing that American business has ever done in its long history of stepping on rakes in Asia.

Neal Stephenson

#19. I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business in software, technology or media, faced disruption and adversity, and overcame underdog status, I want to know how they did it.

Aaron Levie

#20. Business people love to hate their current software and love to love the next software they haven't yet bought. Salespeople count on this. But tomorrow's tools will become the current tools.

David E. Wile

#21. The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.

Bill Gates

#22. If every sector of business and society will be driven by software - how does that get enabled? By highly-paid computer scientists funded by risk capital in Silicon Valley? Or by lots of engineers who can build it themselves?

Satya Nadella

#23. Google has the business resources, global scale and platform reach to accelerate Nest growth across hardware, software and services for the home globally.

Tony Fadell

#24. I develop artificially intelligent technologies, along with educational and game software and let the business people take it where they will.

Frederick Lenz

#25. For a business plan written when the hardware was a wire-wrapped board and the software was three demos on a graphics substrate, it was pretty close.

Chris Espinosa

#26. Companies that make keys, credit card companies, any company in the service business - anything to do with a consumer is probably a software company.

Michael J. Saylor

#27. Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon.

Marc Andreessen

#28. I know one business, and that's how to make software.

Xavier Niel

#29. In the early stages of negotiation software, on your smartphone, there may be programs that listen to the pitch of a voice, or that test for stress. You'll just ask the program, 'Was he lying? Was he eager to do business with me?' Maybe the computer will be right sixty per cent of the time.

Tyler Cowen

#30. The business we're in is more sociological than technological, more dependent on workers' abilities to communicate with each other than their abilities to communicate with machines.

Tom DeMarco

#31. Historically, software for business was seen as unsexy because the products were seen as so poor - they provided such a poor user experience.

Justin Rosenstein

#32. It's clear that other problems such as [ ... ] the domination of business over government, science, thought, and society, are much bigger than non-free software.

Richard Stallman

#33. I love making things, like software, and films, and laughter. And working with Gus Silber, to make the Funny Business book, has been a fantastic journey.

Ronnie Apteker

#34. Apple already had everyone's billing information from iTunes ... you could buy things just by typing in your password ... That, for the first time, brought very, very easy payment to the modern software world. That, more than anything, is why there is a business for paid apps.

Marco Arment