Software Quotes · Page 16

I always knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur. I started my own software company in high school and went to college…

— Marc Benioff

A geek is a guy who has everything going for him but he's just too young. He's got the software but he…

— John Hughes

Most of what we do is software, Internet, and mobile. A fair amount of that is transactional.

— Dave McClure

In a user lead model, users are bringing in their own technology... and you can build software then, around the user.

— Aaron Levie

The chakras are very intelligent – they are like the software of the whole computer body.

— Dharma Mittra

I basically got an education in software on DuPont's money because they were too stubborn to admit that a recession was coming.

— Michael J. Saylor

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

— Wietse Venema

I prefer software where kids build something and run into problems they have to solve.

— Seymour Papert

Similarly, computer literacy courses tend to produce computer people who know a lot about computers or a piece of software but they…

— Seymour Papert

Software is usually expected to be modified over the course of its productive life. The process of converting one correct program into…

— Douglas Crockford

So what makes me happy? I was really happy to build this house. That's it; building things. The trouble with software is…

— Larry Ellison

My first company, Pure Software, was exciting and innovative in the first few years and bureaucratic and painful in the last few…

— Reed Hastings

If in my lifetime the problem of non-free software is solved, I could perhaps relax and write software again. But I might…

— Richard Stallman

When I was at Tek, I was frustrated that computer hardware was being improved faster than computer software. I wanted to invent…

— Ward Cunningham

One of the ways that Microsoft beat Apple way back in the day was that they were a lot more open; today,…

— Jimmy Wales

When I was trying to write a novel, I ran out of money, and I was delivering packages on a bicycle. And…

— Glenn Kelman

Authority never matches responsibility. That's one of the great myths and delusions of all times. Winning managers and individual performers at all…

— Tom Peters

“The confidence you get from knowing about every crash, anywhere in the world, is crucial to delivering a high-quality product that needs…

— Joel Spolsky

The FBI wants Apple to write software code to help it break into the iPhone. Apple doesn't want to say this. Andrew…

— Laura Sydell

I believe there's plenty of market for each; we're talking about an ecosystem that is going to support billions of devices, so…

— Aaron Levie

At one time, I hated the iPhone - but that was only before I used one for the first time. Now, it…

— Chris Pirillo

We need a wireless mobile device ecosystem that mirrors the PC/Internet ecosystem, one where the consumers' purchase of network capacity is separate…

— Walt Mossberg

Sharing the code just seems like The Right Thing to Do, it costs us rather little, but it benefits a lot of…

— John Carmack

The electronics industry expanded rapidly and the seeds for the semiconductor and software revolution were planted. The postwar period also saw the…

— Barry Ritholtz

Back in my day, I would probe by hand. Now you can get commercial software that does the job for you.

— Kevin Mitnick

If you like your remote messaging fat, dumb, and interoperable, you could also look into the SOAP libraries distributed with Ruby.

— Dave Thomas

Excessive or irrational schedules are probably the single most destructive influence in all of software

— Capers Jones

In open-source in general, the power lies in connecting the author of the software directly to users, eliminating the middleman.

— Peter Fenton

The most important thing was the creation of a... a standard, where hundreds of companies build hardware that can all run the…

— Bill Gates

Writing system software is like planning a family.If you make a mistake you have to live with it for 20 years.

— Richard Marshall

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

— James Alan Gardner

Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.

— James Levine

Every big computing disaster has come from taking too many ideas and putting them in one place.

— Gordon Bell

For systems in which you already have a lot of hardware and software, change is difficult. That's why apps are so popular.

— Vint Cerf

I got a degree in math, from not a good school in Texas, and then I went to work as a software…

— Shane Carruth

My opinion is that the only two computer companies that are software-driven are Apple and NeXT, and I wonder about Apple.

— Steve Jobs

I write and do all my arrangements on my Mac. And um, I use Logic Pro, which is a great software program.

— Wang Leehom

Of all the things you can spend a lot of money on, the only things you expect to fail frequently are software…

— Jaron Lanier

I'm also the chairman of the board of Symantec, which is the world's largest cybersecurity - software cybersecurity company.

— Dan Schulman

It seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the readability, modifiability, and portability of its software.

— Dennis Ritchie