Software Quotes · Page 19

I have not seen anyone assume that all the citizens of New York are guilty of murder, violence, robbery, perjury, or writing…

— Richard Stallman

I think managers have realized that most software people are slightly brain damaged, that they're off on their own planets.

— Eugene Jarvis

For a business plan written when the hardware was a wire-wrapped board and the software was three demos on a graphics substrate,…

— Chris Espinosa

You know, if you were *really* going to starve, you'd be justified in writing proprietary software.

— Richard Stallman

Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom.

— Richard Stallman

Writing system software is like planning a family.If you make a mistake you have to live with it for 20 years.

— Richard Marshall

Excessive or irrational schedules are probably the single most destructive influence in all of software

— Capers Jones

The most important thing was the creation of a... a standard, where hundreds of companies build hardware that can all run the…

— Bill Gates

The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for. By all means,…

— Larry Wall

So Viaan Industries Ltd has three verticals; one is licensing and technology which concentrates on Fintech and licensing various products and creating…

— Raj Kundra

A little retrospection shows that although many fine, useful software systems have been designed by committees and built as part of multipart…

— Fred Brooks

I worked in a software company in Bangalore and made short films during weekends. I learnt the basics during a one-day workshop…

— Karthik Subbaraj

In the past, there was hardware, software, and platforms on top of which there were applications. Now they're getting conflated. That is…

— Satya Nadella

Software never was perfect and won't get perfect. But is that a license to create garbage? The missing ingredient is our reluctance…

— Boris Beizer

The QSM Software Almanac is an invaluable resource. It establishes a norm for software projects, including best of class, worst of class…

— Tom DeMarco

There is only one real computer - the universe - whose hardware is made up of non-spatial states of consciousness and software…

— Kedar Joshi

Observe that for the programmer, as for the chef, the urgency of the patron may govern the scheduled completion of the task,…

— Anonymous

Every NBA arena has six cameras in the ceiling. The question is what does the software do with video feeds? How to…

— Steve Ballmer

If I say I've got two versions of Word - that old one from 1982 that's perfect, with zero defects; or the…

— Nathan Myhrvold

You know, most people in the open-source world who use open-source software don't actually do builds themselves - those people just download…

— James Gosling

We know about as much about software quality problems as they knew about the Black Plague in the 1600s. We've seen the…

— Tom Van Vleck

Something we have to remember is that everything about the internet is interconnected. All of our systems are not just common to…

— Edward Snowden

The NeXT purchase is too little too late. The Apple of the past was an innovative company that used software and hardware…

— Nathan Myhrvold

It's simply unrealistic to depend on secrecy for security in computer software. You may be able to keep the exact workings of…

— Whitfield Diffie

In open-source in general, the power lies in connecting the author of the software directly to users, eliminating the middleman.

— Peter Fenton

Every big computing disaster has come from taking too many ideas and putting them in one place.

— Gordon Bell

Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.

— James Levine

What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time?

— James Alan Gardner

I prefer software where kids build something and run into problems they have to solve.

— Seymour Papert

Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.

— Wietse Venema

I basically got an education in software on DuPont's money because they were too stubborn to admit that a recession was coming.

— Michael J. Saylor

If you like your remote messaging fat, dumb, and interoperable, you could also look into the SOAP libraries distributed with Ruby.

— Dave Thomas

Back in my day, I would probe by hand. Now you can get commercial software that does the job for you.

— Kevin Mitnick

I'm also the chairman of the board of Symantec, which is the world's largest cybersecurity - software cybersecurity company.

— Dan Schulman

Of all the things you can spend a lot of money on, the only things you expect to fail frequently are software…

— Jaron Lanier

It seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the readability, modifiability, and portability of its software.

— Dennis Ritchie

I got a degree in math, from not a good school in Texas, and then I went to work as a software…

— Shane Carruth

For systems in which you already have a lot of hardware and software, change is difficult. That's why apps are so popular.

— Vint Cerf

I write and do all my arrangements on my Mac. And um, I use Logic Pro, which is a great software program.

— Wang Leehom

My opinion is that the only two computer companies that are software-driven are Apple and NeXT, and I wonder about Apple.

— Steve Jobs