The default movement on a software project should be in the direction of taking elements of the software away to make it… — Steve McConnell Copy Share Image
As software engineers trained to turn ambiguity into absolutes and fuzzy requirements into ones and zeros, we had a 'eureka' moment when… — Walter O'Brien Copy Share Image
We decided that we wanted our developers to come with clear minds, not polluted by some other approach, to learn the way… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“I vividly remember going to Google Docs, opening a document at the same time other students were working on it, and seeing… — Ian Lamont Copy Share Image
Think of how Wikipedia works, how Amazon harnesses user annotation on its site, the way photo-sharing sites like Flickr are bleeding out… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
The software is the strength of the electronic tribe because it's networking. It's creating oneness. It's creating tributaries that link together into… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I've never felt really creative or intuitive using software. I like paper and pens and paint. I need to angle real lights… — Don Hertzfeldt Copy Share Image
If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
In my fairly disorganized life, yellow stickies are too easily lost, and as for software, I try to avoid using my computer… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
A smartphone is a computer - it's not built using a computer - the job it does is the job of being… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
My wife convinced me to try doing the restorations digitally. I thought I could learn the photo editing software over the Thanksgiving… — Donald Lambert Copy Share Image
A big part of the success of Microsoft was that every year, the chips our software ran on got faster and cheaper.… — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
I think malware is a significant threat because the mitigation, like antivirus software, hasn't evolved to a point to really mitigate the… — Kevin Mitnick Copy Share Image
Stay open to as many new tools and think of as many ways you can to utilize them to your advantage. This… — Vincent Laforet Copy Share Image
I'm not a Luddite completely; I believe in refrigerators to cool my martinis, and washing machines because I hate to see women… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
I want to avoid locking people into solutions that work only with Postfix. People should have a choice in what software they… — Wietse Venema Copy Share Image
The scanning of barcodes, or the reading of RFID transponders, generates data that is used in a software package to provide management… — Mike Marsh Copy Share Image
It's my job for Oracle, the number two software company in the world; to become the number one software company in the… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
In the early stages of negotiation software, on your smartphone, there may be programs that listen to the pitch of a voice,… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding… — Safra A. Catz Copy Share Image
The industries that fall first are the industries that either produce electromechanical items that are now inferior to their software substitutes, or… — Michael J. Saylor Copy Share Image
Automated call centers are only the most obvious way speech recognition will be used. The software is now becoming sophisticated enough to… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
“More importantly, our software worked. I don't just mean that it didn't bump, or that it performed according to the written specifications,… — Eliyahu M. Goldratt Copy Share Image
There is enough of free-of-charge software available on the Net to ease building internet websites and contact pages, as well as implement… — Fabrizio Moreira Copy Share Image
However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is… — Wietse Venema Copy Share Image
As software began to be sold to people who would never consider themselves technical, it suddenly became clear that you needed people… — Marc Randolph Copy Share Image
Another trick in software is to avoid rewriting the software by using a piece that's already been written, so called component approach… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
In software you can't really add people and expect to get more done, because their ability to understand the program and what's… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I think I am very goal oriented. I'd like to win the America's cup. I'd like Oracle to be the No 1… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
I think it's important to also realize that this isn't a case of Apple being asked to simply flip a switch or,… — Angus King Copy Share Image
Early versions of Microsoft Word left a lot to be desired. However, to the company's credit, it quickly learned where Word fell… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
Broadcom is the descendent of a nearly 60-year-old unit of the original Hewlett-Packard. Semiconductor companies are like enterprise software companies: they don't… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
High-quality software is not expensive. High-quality software is faster and cheaper to build and maintain than low-quality software, from initial development all… — Capers Jones Copy Share Image
Robots equipped with software can be designed to do repetitive jobs. All that you need in a factory is a set of… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
We have over 60 million machines that can take the same diskette, plug it in and immediately ah, that that software's working.… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
When it comes to e-book playback devices and software, I have always thought that the emphasis on ergonomic concerns as a tipping… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Creating a piece of software is always complicated because you're doing something new. If you just wanted something that had been done… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
You have to give credit where credit's due. Steve [Jobs] has been probably the single hardware/software forward-looking thinker and executor in our… — Christopher Galvin Copy Share Image
I see three forces militating in favor of growing inequality: increasing measurement of worker value added, automation through smart software, and globalization. — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image