Software Quotes · Page 17

A minimum precaution: keep your anti-malware protections up to date, and install security updates for all your software as soon as they…

— Barton Gellman

My father is a retired army captain and banking software salesman, and my mother is an English teacher.

— Jim Parrack

Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit.

— Neal Stephenson

Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.

— Aaron Levie

By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal…

— Oren Peli

Software is becoming no different than a videotape or a record album or a paperback book, and not all of us are…

— Kevin O'Leary

If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.

— Alan Cooper

Epic has prided itself on providing software directly to customers ever since I started mailing floppy disks in 1991.

— Tim Sweeney

...wisdom is in large part the knowledge of how to avoid doing dumb things, and thus grows globally as a function of…

— Tim Bray

The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one. Hence, descriptions of a software entity that abstract away its…

— Fred Brooks

Open source is an intellectual-property destroyer, I can't imagine something that could be worse than this for the software business and the…

— Jim Allchin

I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business…

— Aaron Levie

Proprietary software keeps users divided and helpless. Divided because each user is forbidden to redistribute it to others, and helpless because the…

— Richard Stallman

There are two methods in software design. One is to make the program so simple, there are obviously no errors. The other…

— Tony Hoare

On the back end, software programming tools and Internet-based services make it easy to launch new global software-powered start-ups in many industries…

— Marc Andreessen

Digital piracy needs to be addressed. Without content protection, investment in content can't be supported. We need secure distribution. If you (telecommunications…

— Bob Iger

“Many rookie software managers think that they can "motivate" their programmers to work faster by giving them nice, "tight" (unrealistically short) schedules.…

— Joel Spolsky

A computer is the most incredible tool we've ever seen. It can be a writing tool, a communications center, a supercalculator, a…

— Steve Jobs

Software is inherently complicated. If you say to somebody I want an airline reservation system, to really say what you want in…

— Bill Gates

Every computer divides itself into its hardware and its software, the machine host to its algorithm, the human being to his mind.…

— David Berlinski

Software substitution, whether it's for drivers or waiters or nurses ... it's progressing. ... Technology over time will reduce demand for jobs,…

— Bill Gates

Free software is part of a broader phenomenon, which is a shift toward recognizing the value of shared work. Historically, shared stuff…

— Mark Shuttleworth

In science, the whole system builds on people looking at other people's results and building on top of them. In witchcraft, somebody…

— Linus Torvalds

There's a strong distinction to be made between dry code smart contacts and wet code's physical law. So law is based on…

— Nick Szabo

More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all other causes combined.

— Fred Brooks

I want people to understand the amazing, positive way our software can make leisure time more enjoyable, and work and businesses more…

— Steve Ballmer

Software was changing so fast, so unbelievable, that that got very quick adoption.

— Bill Gates

After graduation, I took a job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in software development. I don't think I was there more than a…

— John Katzman

[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]

— Charles Stross

The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build.

— Fred Brooks

Some software is actually pretty good, by any standard. Think of the Mars Rovers, Google, and the Human Genome Project. Now, that's…

— Bjarne Stroustrup

Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.

— Edsger Dijkstra

There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.

— Bill Gates

A typical software project can present more opportunities to learn from mistakes than some people get in a lifetime.

— Steve McConnell

Crappy old OSes have value in the basically negative sense that changing to new ones makes us wish we'd never been born.

— Neal Stephenson

There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it.

— Jim Allchin

I believe good software is written by small teams of two, three, or four people interacting with each other at a very…

— John Warnock

Everything is going to be connected to cloud and data... All of this will be mediated by software.

— Satya Nadella

The Adobe flash plug-in is non-free software, and people should not install it, or suggest installing it, or even tell people it…

— Richard Stallman

We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.

— Tim O'Reilly