When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause. — Wietse Venema Copy Share Image
Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Technology can be part of a solution, but it takes far more than software to usher in reform. — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software. — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer. — Curt Schilling Copy Share Image
There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The biggest issue on software teams is making sure everyone understands what everyone else is doing. — Martin Fowler Copy Share Image
Microsoft does not dominate the software industry by any stretch of the imagination. We have lots of very able competitors who keep… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I was not in a good space in my life, emotionally particularly, so I needed to do something to recharge my batteries… — Jamie Lidell Copy Share Image
Education should not be about building more schools and maintaining a system that dates back to the Industrial Revolution. We can achieve… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
Product pricing is aligned to the way customers want to acquire their solutions and are delivered via different delivery models including appliances,… — N. Robert Hammer Copy Share Image
It seems like the web, particularly software as a service, provides ample opportunities for you to flourish economically, completely aligned with the… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
We're putting all of our energy into making it right. And we have already had several software updates. We've got a huge… — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
The new Web is a very different thing. It's a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Technology has moved away from sharing and toward ownership. This suits software and hardware companies just fine: They create new, bloated programs… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
To treat programming scientifically, it must be possible to specify the required properties of programs precisely. Formality is certainly not an end… — Jim Horning Copy Share Image
Everybody remembers numbers and computers remember numbers. People remember procedures and computers certainly remember procedures. But the other thing that's still important… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
My venture investing career has three phases, all roughly 6-8 years long. The first, at Euclid, was software to Internet. The second,… — Fred Wilson Copy Share Image
Google’s objective is to organize the world’s information and to make it accessible. Unicode plays a central role in this effort because… — Vinton Cerf Copy Share Image
While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
The most revolutionary aspect of technology is its mobility. Anybody can learn it. It jumps easily over barriers of race and language.… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“Similarly, the computers used to run the software on the ground for the mission were borrowed from a previous mission. These machines… — Jason Farman Copy Share Image
We had the hardware expertise, the industrial design expertise and the software expertise, including iTunes. One of the biggest insights we have… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement. — Andy Hertzfeld Copy Share Image
There's only four things we do better than anyone else: music movies microcode (software) high-speed pizza delivery — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector. — N. R. Narayana Murthy Copy Share Image
In software engineering, we have the term 'technical debt.' When you don't do a job correctly, unaddressed problems become harder and harder… — Brianna Wu Copy Share Image
Paul and I, we never thought that we would make much money out of the thing. We just loved writing software. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
[We in Microsoft] are not the only software company but we are a great software company doing some unique work. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Apple's advantage is that it designs and builds software together, so if the software isn't excellent, it does the superlative hardware a… — Walt Mossberg Copy Share Image
Free software' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in 'free speech,'… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support - a significant problem in the software industry. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I had a fortune cookie the other day and it said:Outlook not so good. I thought:Ofcourse not, but Microsoft ships it anyway — Unkown Copy Share Image
Indeed one of the best ways to deflect attacks is to make it look like they're succeeding. It's the software equivalent of… — Joel Spolsky Copy Share Image
Hey, I'm a good software engineer, but I'm not exactly known for my fashion sense. White socks and sandals don't translate to… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
From logos to software - you name it, the Chinese have stolen it - and they'll keep stealing it, if left unchecked. — Trish Regan Copy Share Image
None of our competitors have ever made two systems that run the same software. — Trip Hawkins Copy Share Image
Once GNU is written, everyone will be able to obtain good system software free, just like air. — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
My reply is: the software has no known bugs, therefore it has not been updated. — Wietse Venema Copy Share Image