What [software] must not do is not the inverse of what it must do. . — Nancy Leveson Copy Share Image
Those who write software only for pay should go hurt some other field. — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
We're going from a world of customized software to standardized platforms. — Aaron Levie Copy Share Image
Software and digital devices are imbued with the values of their creators. — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
In open-source in general, the power lies in connecting the author of the software directly to users, eliminating the middleman. — Peter Fenton Copy Share Image
The most important thing was the creation of a... a standard, where hundreds of companies build hardware that can all run the… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Excessive or irrational schedules are probably the single most destructive influence in all of software — Capers Jones Copy Share Image
Writing system software is like planning a family.If you make a mistake you have to live with it for 20 years. — Richard Marshall Copy Share Image
What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time? — James Alan Gardner Copy Share Image
Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it. — James Levine Copy Share Image
Every big computing disaster has come from taking too many ideas and putting them in one place. — Gordon Bell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is not just software glitches and corrupted memory cards that should be on the minds of election officials. Hackers pose another… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
With the DS and Wii, following the titles that were released at launch, the momentum dropped when there was a gap in… — Satoru Iwata Copy Share Image
We now know that something between 85 and 90 percent of most software product features are unwanted and unneeded by customers. That… — Steve Blank Copy Share Image
We can collaborate with a Netscape employee or partner who's halfway around the world. We can distribute information and software to customers… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I get so many requests for interviews. If I talk to everyone, we can't do our job with our customers and work… — Judith Faulkner Copy Share Image
The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don't understand the software parts of it.… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing… — Wietse Venema Copy Share Image
Companies often visit my office, or invite me to theirs, to brief me on new products, Web sites, or software before they… — Walt Mossberg Copy Share Image
Online education is pretty special for two reasons. One is that you can get the very best lecture in the world and… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
There's a strong distinction to be made between dry code smart contacts and wet code's physical law. So law is based on… — Nick Szabo Copy Share Image
In science, the whole system builds on people looking at other people's results and building on top of them. In witchcraft, somebody… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
For the average home-user, anti-virus software is a must. A personal firewall such as Zone Alarm and running a program like HFNetcheck,… — Kevin Mitnick Copy Share Image
One can expect the human race to continue attempting systems just within or just beyond our reach; and software systems are perhaps… — Fred Brooks 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
On a strategic level, employers really are behaving stupidly. Look at how they do recruiting: this automated process under which they will… — Nick Corcodilos Copy Share Image
I took a leave of absence from the internet company where I was working and bought a camera and a copy of… — Marshall Curry Copy Share Image
Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings. — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image