The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple. — Grady Booch Copy Share Image
I love software, because if you can imagine something, you can build it. — Ray Ozzie Copy Share Image
This idea you're going to take a 50-year-old coal miner and turn them into a software engineer is ridiculous. — Ro Khanna Copy Share Image
Patents? Disappointed? Don't think of it that way. Software patents weren't feasible then so we chose not to risk $10,000. — Bob Frankston Copy Share Image
We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial. — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
All programming is maintenance programming, because you are rarely writing original code. — Dave Thomas Copy Share Image
It is interesting to come across people who feel that a ghost communicating via a spell-checker is less far-fetched than a software… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they're intended to be used for. — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things. — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
If you want to measure social media ROI, stop wasting your time doing software demos and attending webinars. Just figure out what… — Jay Baer Copy Share Image
Elegance? It may seem odd to non-scientists, but there is an aesthetic in software as there is in every other area of… — John Naughton Copy Share Image
When writing gateway software of any kind, take pains to disturb the data stream as little as possible - and never throw… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
Most people assume that once security software is installed, they're protected. This isn't the case. It's critical that companies be proactive in… — Kevin Mitnick Copy Share Image
I think there are opportunities outside India as well as in India. In fact, some of the largest projects that most Indian… — N. R. Narayana Murthy Copy Share Image
Imagine the disincentive to software development if after months of work another company could come along and copy your work and market… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Accountants, machinists, medical technicians, even software writers that write the software for 'machines' are being displaced without upscaled replacement jobs. Retrain, rehire… — Bill Gross Copy Share Image
We're trying to make our software available to users in as economically efficient a way as possible. That means distributing the software… — Tim Sweeney Copy Share Image
History is littered with great firms that got killed by disruption. Of course, the personal computer, a technology that first took root… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
If the DHS insists, as bureaucracies are apt to do, that open-source must be certified via a sanctioned, formal process, it will… — Mark Hall Copy Share Image
Our TotalGuide Solution can operate on a wide range of the installed base of legacy set-top boxes without requiring material changes to… — Alfred Amoroso Copy Share Image
Testing by itself does not improve software quality. Test results are an indicator of quality, but in and of themselves, they don't… — Steve McConnell Copy Share Image
There are no barriers to entries. Think of this as Linux in terms of software. Anyone can have part of the operating… — Paul Gigot Copy Share Image
Our enemies may be irrational, even outright insane, driven by nationalism, religion, ethnicity or ideology. They do not fear the United States… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Building software implies various stages of planning, preparation and execution that vary in kind and degree depending on what's being built. [...]… — Steve McConnell Copy Share Image
The first step toward the management of disease was replacement of demon theories and humours theories by the germ theory. That very… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
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