Software Quotes · Page 15

For many people my software is something that you install and forget. I like to keep it that way.

— Wietse Venema

For most software startups, this translates to keep growing. For hardware startups, it translates to don't let your ship date slip.

— Sam Altman

You get the software you pay for. In every sense. To the nth degree. That's the way the world works.

— Dave Winer

The mind is like a computer. It runs programs. Most of the software has been poorly written. It is written in the…

— Frederick Lenz

The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in the developed…

— Marshall McLuhan

It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not.

— Bill Gates

Fight Features. … The only way to make software secure, reliable, and fast is to make it small.

— Andrew S. Tanenbaum

When we use a language, we should commit ourselves to knowing it, being able to read it, and writing it idiomatically.

— Ron Jeffries

It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has…

— Alan Cooper

Software is now so complex - requiring so many gazillions of tiny files all over your computer - that most consumers don't…

— Clive Thompson

The structure of a software system provides the ecology in which code is born, matures, and dies. A well-designed habitat allows for…

— Richard E. Pattis

Frame is a good enough piece of software that there are actually rewards to taking an intelligent and formal approach to your…

— Philip Greenspun

Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're…

— Sam Wyly

Scrivener is where I live. I'm planning the next novel, two screenplays and a couple of short stories with it and it's…

— Michael Marshall Smith

It is a high bar to say that it's more fun than working on software because the work at Microsoft that both…

— Bill Gates

With the rise of software patents, engineers coding new stuff - whether within a large software company or as kids writing smartphone…

— Jonathan Zittrain

My venture investing career has three phases, all roughly 6-8 years long. The first, at Euclid, was software to Internet. The second,…

— Fred Wilson

Google’s objective is to organize the world’s information and to make it accessible. Unicode plays a central role in this effort because…

— Vinton Cerf

We had the hardware expertise, the industrial design expertise and the software expertise, including iTunes. One of the biggest insights we have…

— Steve Jobs

It has long been my personal view that the separation of practical and theoretical work is artificial and injurious. Much of the…

— Christopher Strachey

I took a leave of absence from the internet company where I was working and bought a camera and a copy of…

— Marshall Curry

On a strategic level, employers really are behaving stupidly. Look at how they do recruiting: this automated process under which they will…

— Nick Corcodilos

The most revolutionary aspect of technology is its mobility. Anybody can learn it. It jumps easily over barriers of race and language.…

— Freeman Dyson

“Similarly, the computers used to run the software on the ground for the mission were borrowed from a previous mission. These machines…

— Jason Farman

We're not in hardware for hardware's sake. We're in hardware to be able to express all our platform and productivity software in…

— Satya Nadella

Releasing Linux versions has always been a matter of higher code quality, good software architecture, and technical interest for the platform.

— Timothee Besset

If you use a proprietary program or somebody else's web server, you're defenceless. You're putty in the hands of whoever developed that…

— Richard Stallman

A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want.

— Niklaus Wirth

There is this thing called the GPL (Gnu Public Licence), which we disagree with... nobody can ever improve the software.

— Bill Gates

I think my software is going to become so ubiquitous, so essential, that if it stops working, there will be riots.

— Michael J. Saylor

From logos to software - you name it, the Chinese have stolen it - and they'll keep stealing it, if left unchecked.

— Trish Regan

None of our competitors have ever made two systems that run the same software.

— Trip Hawkins

Hey, I'm a good software engineer, but I'm not exactly known for my fashion sense. White socks and sandals don't translate to…

— Linus Torvalds

Indeed one of the best ways to deflect attacks is to make it look like they're succeeding. It's the software equivalent of…

— Joel Spolsky

Software eventually and necessarily gained the same respect as any other discipline.

— Margaret H. Hamilton

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

— Keith Rothfus

An organization that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.

— Bjarne Stroustrup

“software alone is a commodity. There is nothing stopping anyone from copying the feature set, making it better, cheaper, and faster.”

— Alex Moazed

Every young person gets so excited about new software packages and new technology.

— John Lasseter

A lot of the parallel processing software we're currently developing for supercomputers is tantric.

— Frederick Lenz