Software Quotes · Page 16

Once GNU is written, everyone will be able to obtain good system software free, just like air.

— Richard Stallman

Microsoft develops a lot of software that allows people to realize their potential.

— Arfa Karim

Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.

— Marc Andreessen

Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.

— Richard Stallman

My reply is: the software has no known bugs, therefore it has not been updated.

— Wietse Venema

If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

— Anonymous

Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting.

— Wietse Venema

I've been a software engineer, a novelist, a journalist, and a manager - and managing developers is easily the trickiest thing I've…

— Jon Evans

Blockchain software companies may end up being amalgamated into existing software giants, at which point blockchain patents will just become part of…

— Vitalik Buterin

The thing is, there are so many different ways to make music these days with virtual instruments, software applications, physical instruments, and…

— Mike Shinoda

Our goal in education should be to foster the ability to use the computer in everything you do, even if you don't…

— Seymour Papert

I think that even knocking on the door allows you to understand a little bit of that kind of stuff. Mainly what…

— Thomas Middleditch

One of the great enemies of design is when systems or objects become more complex than a person - or even a…

— Bran Ferren

The software program for motherhood is impossible to fully download into the male brain. You give them two tasks and they're like,…

— Allison Pearson

WTO is not the forum for labour standards. Next, the U.S. will argue the time zone difference is an unfair competitive advantage…

— Jairam Ramesh

As for the device we now call a TV or a cable box, I want it to be fast with a clean…

— Walt Mossberg

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

— Dan Rather

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

— Robert Fano

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

— Jim Horning

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

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

— Steve Melnyk

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

If you are a professional writer - i.e., if someone else is getting paid to worry about how your words are formatted…

— Neal Stephenson

These days, I find it harder to listen to really trebly lo-fi recordings. At the same time, without the old limitations, these…

— Michael Dumontier

Just like an idle software, your brain is less efficient after a long break.

— Sam Bankman-Fried

Software and hardware design is less different than software designers think, but more different than hardware designers think.

— Fred Brooks

Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.

— Stan Kelly-Bootle

A refund for defective software might be nice, except it would bankrupt the entire software industry in the first year.

— Andrew S. Tanenbaum

SAP is becoming the standard for business software. Oracle is in a state of chaos.

— Bill Vaughan

It's called 'reading'. It's how people install new software into their brains.

— Scott A. Becker

Correctness is clearly the prime quality. If a system does not do what it is supposed to do, then everything else about…

— Bertrand Meyer

My own personal dream is that the majority of the web runs on open source software.

— Matt Mullenweg

Up to a point, it is better to just let the snags [bugs] be there than to spend such time in design…

— Alan Turing

Mark Zuckerberg did his own software for Facebook, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin made their own for Google.

— Xavier Niel

At the end of the day, the GPL is not about making software free; it's about destroying value.

— Darl McBride

People will realize that software is not a product; you use it to build a product.

— Linus Torvalds

That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.

— Larry Niven

The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC.

— Bill Gates

“In general, the longer you wait before fixing a bug, the costlier (in time and money) it is to fix.”

— Joel Spolsky

While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software…

— Bill Gates