Every big computing disaster has come from taking too many ideas and putting them in one place. — Gordon Bell 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
Back in my day, I would probe by hand. Now you can get commercial software that does the job for you. — Kevin Mitnick Copy Share Image
If you like your remote messaging fat, dumb, and interoperable, you could also look into the SOAP libraries distributed with Ruby. — Dave Thomas 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
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
As a person with the retentive mental capacity of a goldfish and a dislike of repetition, I frequently make use of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To create a usable piece of software, you have to fight for every fix, every feature, every little accommodation that will get… — Dave Winer Copy Share Image
We flew down weekly to meet with IBM, but they thought the way to measure software was the amount of code we… — Bill Gates 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
Microsoft has one more shot at a role in smart phone software through its deployment on Nokia phones. Nokia is still the… — David Einhorn Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Can a one judge sitting somewhere in a trial court issue an order that says nobody in the world is allowed to… — Eben Moglen Copy Share Image
Software touches all of these different things you use, and tech companies are revolutionizing all different areas of the world...from how we… — Drew Houston Copy Share Image
Cultural conditioning is like bad software. Over and over it's diddled with and re-written so that it can just run on the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
While sanctions against Iran and Syria are intended to constrain those countries' governments, they have had the unfortunate side effect of constraining… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
A nerd will be a nerd all his life. When we did The Nerd Book at National Lampoon, the nerds got picked… — John Hughes Copy Share Image
Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists. — Wietse Venema Copy Share Image
I prefer software where kids build something and run into problems they have to solve. — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
I discovered shooting and filmmaking around the time all of the software became affordable to anyone with a PC. — Seth Gordon Copy Share Image
Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom. — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
You know, if you were *really* going to starve, you'd be justified in writing proprietary software. — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
For a business plan written when the hardware was a wire-wrapped board and the software was three demos on a graphics substrate,… — Chris Espinosa Copy Share Image
I think managers have realized that most software people are slightly brain damaged, that they're off on their own planets. — Eugene Jarvis Copy Share Image
I have not seen anyone assume that all the citizens of New York are guilty of murder, violence, robbery, perjury, or writing… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
In the next 10 years, data science and software will do more for medicine than all of the biological sciences together. — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
You haven’t experienced awkwardness until you’ve seen a three-million-dollar piece of software cry. — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
I'm always surprised at how many people seem to like reading about what hardware and software I use. — David Pogue Copy Share Image
Our lives and our culture have been significantly changed and improved by hardware, software, and services developed by immigrants. — Walt Mossberg Copy Share Image
