Software Quotes · Page 13

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

— Richard Stallman

Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.

— Marc Andreessen

Microsoft develops a lot of software that allows people to realize their potential.

— Arfa Karim

An organization that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.

— Bjarne Stroustrup

Im a transactional lawyer; I negotiate all types of things, but with a particular focus in software licenses.

— Keith Rothfus

Software eventually and necessarily gained the same respect as any other discipline.

— Margaret H. Hamilton

A lot of the parallel processing software we're currently developing for supercomputers is tantric.

— Frederick Lenz

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

— John Lasseter

One of our first jobs was at Saba Software. We were helping them build their products for the cloud. We wanted to…

— Parker Harris

Our goal in making these changes is to enable Microsoft to achieve greater agility in managing the incredible growth ahead and executing…

— Steve Ballmer

Adding last-minute features, whether in response to competitive pressure, as a developer's pet feature, or on the whim of management, causes more…

— John Robbins

Whether you are a consumer, a hardware maker, a software developer or a provider of cool new services, it's hard to make…

— Walt Mossberg

Proprietary software grew up, starting really in the 1980s, as an alternative and that became the dominant model with the rise of…

— Tim O'Reilly

It's important not only to have the right timing of when the hardware is going to be released but also when we…

— Satoru Iwata

Hubble wasn't designed to look at objects in our solar system, but after it was launched, astronomers realized that with just a…

— Heidi Hammel

If anything, there's a reverse Moore's Law observable in software: As processors become faster and memory becomes cheaper, software becomes correspondingly slower…

— Jaron Lanier

On a strategic level, employers really are behaving stupidly. Look at how they do recruiting: this automated process under which they will…

— Nick Corcodilos

I took a leave of absence from the internet company where I was working and bought a camera and a copy of…

— Marshall Curry

It has long been my personal view that the separation of practical and theoretical work is artificial and injurious. Much of the…

— Christopher Strachey

I think there certainly was a milestone in the '90s with regards to the Internet achieving critical mass. There were several magical…

— Bill Gates

When I was in graduate school at MIT I was trying to think about how to develop software and systems for farmers…

— Ramesh Srinivasan

If an audience finds themselves paying attention to how you made your film, you're sunk because that means they're unplugged from your…

— Don Hertzfeldt

Lawmakers misrepresent the facts when they call the manufacturing deduction known as Section 199 - passed by Congress in 2004 to spur…

— Harold Ford, Jr

Within a few decades, machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence, leading to The Singularity -- technological change so rapid and profound it…

— Ray Kurzweil

“software alone is a commodity. There is nothing stopping anyone from copying the feature set, making it better, cheaper, and faster.”

— Alex Moazed

You get the software you pay for. In every sense. To the nth degree. That's the way the world works.

— Dave Winer

For most software startups, this translates to keep growing. For hardware startups, it translates to don't let your ship date slip.

— Sam Altman

For many people my software is something that you install and forget. I like to keep it that way.

— Wietse Venema

I concluded that I know how to start and grow software companies. The worthwhile thing I could do was create livelihoods for…

— Greg Gianforte

The mind is like a computer. It runs programs. Most of the software has been poorly written. It is written in the…

— Frederick Lenz

So we do software for watches, for phones, for TV sets, for cars. And some of these take a long time to…

— Bill Gates

I never could have written the screenplay because I would have been forced to learn new software and I can't learn one…

— Augusten Burroughs

A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want.

— Niklaus Wirth

If you use a proprietary program or somebody else's web server, you're defenceless. You're putty in the hands of whoever developed that…

— Richard Stallman

Releasing Linux versions has always been a matter of higher code quality, good software architecture, and technical interest for the platform.

— Timothee Besset

I think my software is going to become so ubiquitous, so essential, that if it stops working, there will be riots.

— Michael J. Saylor

There is this thing called the GPL (Gnu Public Licence), which we disagree with... nobody can ever improve the software.

— Bill Gates

The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in the developed…

— Marshall McLuhan

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…

— Satya Nadella

When we use a language, we should commit ourselves to knowing it, being able to read it, and writing it idiomatically.

— Ron Jeffries