Software Quotes · Page 9

In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.

— Alan Kay

Then people started using it more and more and it became the most downloaded software on the internet.

— Niklas Zennstrom

There's a saying in the software design industry: "Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two."

— Larry Wall

To change the printout of the body, you must learn to rewrite the software of the mind.

— Deepak Chopra

Software entities (classes, modules, functions, etc.) should be open for extension, but closed for modification.

— Bertrand Meyer

I fundamentally do not believe in the patenting of software. It would be like Shakespeare patenting the tragic love story.

— Shiva Ayyadurai

Java development without a little heresy would be a dull place, and a dangerous one.

— Bruce Tate

To be able to choose between proprietary software packages is to be able to choose your master. Freedom means not having a…

— Richard Stallman

This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing…

— Wietse Venema

A lot of good movies produced well can be distributed or marketed badly. Of course, a lot of bad movies marketed well…

— Ronnie Screwvala

It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead…

— Anonymous

Early on, when software was developed by computer scientists, just people working with computers, people passed around software because that was how…

— Tim O'Reilly

Companies often visit my office, or invite me to theirs, to brief me on new products, Web sites, or software before they…

— Walt Mossberg

If you think about the market that we're in, and more broadly just the enterprise software market, the kind of transition that's…

— Aaron Levie

It wasn't an excuse. It was a fact. He'd had to make his way alone, and no one—not rock stars, not professional…

— Malcolm Gladwell

There's nothing more frustrating than seeing cynics sit there and say, 'Well, nobody can make any more money because Microsoft and Intel…

— Michael J. Saylor

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

To treat programming scientifically, it must be possible to specify the required properties of programs precisely. Formality is certainly not an end…

— Jim Horning

In those days [batch processing] programmers never even documented their programs, because it was assumed that nobody else would ever use them.…

— Robert Fano

The American Dream is one of the greatest ideas in the history of human achievement . . . It thrives today in…

— Dan Rather

I refer the largest number of my clients to Payce Payroll because the specialize in the restaurant and contractors industries. I am…

— Steve Melnyk

I only use the computer for editing. I don't have an eight-track, otherwise I probably never would have bought a computer. When…

— Kevin Drumm

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

I do read licenses, and they aggravate me, but a computer isn't much good without software. When I need a product, I…

— Barton Gellman

Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.

— Tim Berners-Lee

Singers who are dependent on digital audio pitch correction software cannot last more than two-three songs.

— Jeet Gannguli

It's hard to read through a book on the principles of magic without glancing at the cover periodically to make sure it…

— Bruce Tognazzini

If there could've ever been a magical time to build an enterprise software company, now is absolutely that time.

— Aaron Levie

In 2007 WebEx was acquired by Cisco and I became Cisco's Corporate VP of engineering, in charge of collaboration software.

— Eric Yuan

Free open-source software, by its nature, is unlikely to feature secret back doors that lead directly to Langley, Va.

— Evgeny Morozov

Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting, drawing, or…

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

For whatever reason somebody can be convinced to buy a PC, it opens up a whole new market for all of us…

— Kevin O'Leary

The shift in demand is toward partners that can improve productivity, and in part, that can be done by software.

— Frans van Houten

Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities.

— David Heinemeier Hansson

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

— Keith Rothfus

A goal of Twitch is to be wherever gamers are, whether it's on laptops and handheld devices or integrated into gaming consoles…

— Emmett Shear

DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.

— Bill Gates

Some PhD physicists write software or work for hedge funds, but physics still has a problem with having very smart people but…

— Stuart J. Russell

Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.

— Jamie Zawinski