Software Quotes · Page 41

This idea you're going to take a 50-year-old coal miner and turn them into a software engineer is ridiculous.

— Ro Khanna

Code reuse is the Holy Grail of Software Engineering.

— Douglas Crockford

What we were doing was trying to simply get the information we need once we learned from our vendor after the software…

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Nintendo has been a very unique company because it's not just hardware but also one of the major software publishers. Because it…

— Satoru Iwata

Maintaining a consistent platform also helps improve product support - a significant problem in the software industry.

— Bill Gates

The burgeoning field of computer science has shifted our view of the physical world from that of a collection of interacting material…

— Paul Davies

Software is a reflection of our own mind. And as our software improves it will not only take on the patterns of…

— Frederick Lenz

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

— Kevin Mitnick

Software is the language of automation.

— Jensen Huang

We are still in the infancy of naming what is really happening on software development projects.

— Alistair Cockburn

What Nintendo has to do is make software that takes advantage of the Wii MotionPlus and make efforts to make the public…

— Satoru Iwata

While sanctions against Iran and Syria are intended to constrain those countries' governments, they have had the unfortunate side effect of constraining…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

I just became one with my browser software.

— Bill Griffith

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

— Nathan Myhrvold

“In general, the longer you wait before fixing a bug, the costlier (in time and money) it is to fix.”

— Joel Spolsky

SAP is becoming the standard for business software. Oracle is in a state of chaos.

— Bill Vaughan

Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.

— Linus Torvalds

The two [separate] UIs are both incredibly simple and don't even look like computer programs; they barely need menus. [When combined, they]…

— Havoc Pennington

Better to be a geek than an idiot.

— Anonymous

I think a lot of great software has been written by people who are scratching a short-term itch, something which has been…

— Tim Berners-Lee

PowerPoint is the Rodney Dangerfield of software. It gets no respect.

— Ken Goldberg

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

— Tim Berners-Lee

I believe there's plenty of market for each; we're talking about an ecosystem that is going to support billions of devices, so…

— Aaron Levie

The [Bernie] Sanders campaign became the center of a good old-fashioned political controversy. His coverage went from no news to bad news…

— Melissa Harris-Perry

It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has…

— Alan Cooper