For us, the real goal is to make it so that the software ecosystem is as healthy as possible. — James Gosling 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
There are no secrets on an successful software project. Both good and bad news must be able to move up and down… — Steve McConnell Copy Share Image
Our biological body itself is a form of hardware that needs re-programming through tantra like a new spiritual software which can release… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Cultural conditioning is like bad software. Over and over it's diddled with and re-written so that it can just run on the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is… — Nat Friedman Copy Share Image
For whatever reason somebody can be convinced to buy a PC, it opens up a whole new market for all of us… — Kevin O'Leary Copy Share Image
I took a job in the U.S. because I wanted to work on products that would get into end users' hands. In… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can direct dial today a man my parents warred with. They wanted to kill him, I want to sell software to… — Brad Templeton Copy Share Image
It's better to wait for a productive programmer to become available than it is to wait for the first available programmer to… — Steve McConnell Copy Share Image
Writing system software is like planning a family.If you make a mistake you have to live with it for 20 years. — Richard Marshall Copy Share Image
Software is definitely engineering. It's different in that we take on novel tasks every time. It's not like building a certain bridge… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If you are a professional writer - i.e., if someone else is getting paid to worry about how your words are formatted… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Java development without a little heresy would be a dull place, and a dangerous one. — Bruce Tate Copy Share Image
From a client perspective, I really think the work Microsoft's doing with Surface, with HoloLens, with Xbox, that stuff's absolutely essential to… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten… — Steve Case Copy Share Image
It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Software is usually accompanied by documentation in the form of big fat scary manuals that nobody ever reads. In fact, for the… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
There is only one real computer - the universe - whose hardware is made up of non-spatial states of consciousness and software… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
Technology has moved away from sharing and toward ownership. This suits software and hardware companies just fine: They create new, bloated programs… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
I've always been obsessed with electronics and using computers and software. It's always been part of my vernacular. — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
Here's the secret that every successful software company is based on: You can domesticate programmers the way beekeepers tame bees. You can't… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image