Software Quotes · Page 18

Finding information is either a software question or a question of how much information is online.

— Bill Gates

I am a software engineer, a popular public speaker, and an expert in the Unreal engine.

— Brianna Wu

Enterprise is hard work. You have to integrate the client with the optimized systems of all the servers and software.

— Samuel J. Palmisano

I'm still learning. I've never done a digital project before. And I'm pretty sure I did things to the software that weren't…

— Don Hertzfeldt

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

— Bruce Tate

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

— Shiva Ayyadurai

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

— Bertrand Meyer

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

— Larry Wall

As the web becomes more and more of a part of our every day lives, it would be a horrible tragedy if…

— Matt Mullenweg

Inadequate use of usability engineering methods in software development projects have been estimated to cost the US economy about $30 billion per…

— Jakob Nielsen

The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the…

— Henry Petroski

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce…

— Rick Cook

Walking is a skill that took millions of years for us to develop... If you wanted to design a robot that could…

— David Pogue

I know there's been questions about-so how long does that continue-and we've now been very clear about that, that software updates to…

— Stephen Elop

Talking about Apple v. Microsoft without mentioning the Internet and the browser is like talking about WWII without talking about the nuke.…

— Michael Arrington

I set writing aside when I went into theater, and then I set theater aside and subsequently had about a 25-year career…

— David Wroblewski

Online education is pretty special for two reasons. One is that you can get the very best lecture in the world and…

— Bill Gates

For the average home-user, anti-virus software is a must. A personal firewall such as Zone Alarm and running a program like HFNetcheck,…

— Kevin Mitnick

One can expect the human race to continue attempting systems just within or just beyond our reach; and software systems are perhaps…

— Fred Brooks

“We conquer the Independence Day aliens by having a Macintosh laptop computer upload a software virus to the mothership (which happens to…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Probably the biggest mistake that I made personally is I knew early on that I wanted to go into start-ups and creating…

— Reid Hoffman

I think one of the both liberating and terrifying prospects from synthetic biology for example is that you are going to have…

— Jason Silva

Once a term like "open source" entered our vocabulary, one could recast the whole public policy calculus in very different terms, so…

— Evgeny Morozov

Obviously solving the education problem is big and complex, and there's already so many failings, but coding is the new fluency. This…

— Alexis Ohanian

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

— Deepak Chopra

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

— Niklas Zennstrom

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

— Alan Kay

Our lives and our culture have been significantly changed and improved by hardware, software, and services developed by immigrants.

— Walt Mossberg

I'm always surprised at how many people seem to like reading about what hardware and software I use.

— David Pogue

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

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

— Jeet Gannguli

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

— Tim Berners-Lee

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

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

— Richard Stallman

In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied…

— Nathan Myhrvold

Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics.

— Jaron Lanier

I discovered shooting and filmmaking around the time all of the software became affordable to anyone with a PC.

— Seth Gordon

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

— Alan Kay

You haven’t experienced awkwardness until you’ve seen a three-million-dollar piece of software cry.

— Charles Yu

In the next 10 years, data science and software will do more for medicine than all of the biological sciences together.

— Vinod Khosla