Software Quotes

Proprietary software is an injustice.

— Richard Stallman

Governments are scared of software.

— Jon Evans

Software makes the world go round.

— Thomas Peterffy

“Software eats everything.”

— Kevin Kelly

Software engineering economics.

— Barry Boehm

This is a software-powered world.

— Satya Nadella

All software sucks.

— Alan Cox

Good software, like wine, takes time.

— Joel Spolsky

Make a faster machine and people will flock to inefficient software.

— John C. Dvorak

A simple [writing] style is the result of very hard work.

— William Zinsser

Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.

— Adam Osborne

Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time.

— Bill Gates

As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it.

— Ad Reinhardt

Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.

— Bjarne Stroustrup

Being blind, I rely on software that talks to me.

— Jennifer Rothschild

Prolific programmers contribute to certain disaster.

— Niklaus Wirth

Complexity control is the central problem of writing software in the real world

— Eric S. Raymond

No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult

— Marc Andreessen

The structure of software systems tend to reflect the structure of the organization that produce them.

— Douglas Crockford

I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate.

— Biz Stone

While free software was meant to force developers to lose sleep over ethical dilemmas, open source software was meant to end their…

— Evgeny Morozov

Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters.

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

When people think of the oil industry, they think of Rockefeller, much like when people think of the software industry, they think…

— H. W. Brands

Just the attempt to learn a [new] language is like running different software through the brain.

— Andrew Weil

You can have an Apple in the phone business, or a RIM, and they can do very well, but when 1.3 billion…

— Steve Ballmer

Software is a reflection of our own mind. And as our software improves it will not only take on the patterns of…

— Frederick Lenz

The hardware and the software will come from Silicon Valley. But the watch case, the dial, the design, the idea, the crown,…

— Jean-Claude Biver

I might seem biased, but I use Evernote every day. It came to me through my readers, who I'd asked for software…

— Anonymous

When we shipped 'Borderlands 2,' we didn't ship it with a plan of how the level cap was going to increase. We…

— Randy Pitchford

Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts…

— Anonymous

I'm the founder of the McAfee Anti-Virus Software Company. Although I have had nothing to do with this company for over 15…

— John McAfee

Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling -- the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration.

— Niklaus Wirth

A new software is being developed so the psychological operations guys and the Pentagon's strategic communications guys - and we don't really…

— Michael Hastings

Over time I learned that there are two very different satisfactions that you can have in your life. One is the satisfaction…

— Atul Gawande

We ought to be keeping in mind that the technology is not just hardware and machinery, it is also software. So you…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

If car manufacturers made cars according to spec the same way software vendors make software according to spec, all five wheels would…

— Erik Naggum

The way you write dialogue is the same whether you're writing for movies or TV or games. We use movie scriptwriting software…

— Sam Lake

Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against…

— David Gelernter

I think we should be clear: Companies will still need software that furthers their corporate goals and even gives them competitive advantage.…

— Steven Pearlstein

If you're into writing and making people laugh, or just want to video blog something, you should get a simple digital video…

— Lucas Cruikshank