Software Quotes · Page 9

Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.

— Edsger Dijkstra

There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.

— Bill Gates

A typical software project can present more opportunities to learn from mistakes than some people get in a lifetime.

— Steve McConnell

[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]

— Charles Stross

The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build.

— Fred Brooks

Software was changing so fast, so unbelievable, that that got very quick adoption.

— Bill Gates

After graduation, I took a job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in software development. I don't think I was there more than a…

— John Katzman

Software is becoming no different than a videotape or a record album or a paperback book, and not all of us are…

— Kevin O'Leary

If you think about the market that we're in, and more broadly just the enterprise software market, the kind of transition that's…

— Aaron Levie

Companies often visit my office, or invite me to theirs, to brief me on new products, Web sites, or software before they…

— Walt Mossberg

If an innovative piece of software comes along, Microsoft copies it and makes it part of Windows. This is not innovation; this…

— Larry Ellison

Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. (Or, sometimes known by] Grove [the head of Intel] giveth and Gates [the head…

— Niklaus Wirth

If you love a medium made of software, there's a danger that you will become entrapped in someone else's recent careless thoughts.…

— Jaron Lanier

While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs…

— Lawrence Lessig

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— Bita

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering. When you finally get done and get to appreciate what you have done…

— Bill Gates

Software touches all of these different things you use, and tech companies are revolutionizing all different areas of the world...from how we…

— Drew Houston

Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that…

— George Johnson

Companies made these decisions about encryption when they were finding it very difficult to sell their products overseas because the [Edward] Snowden…

— Michael Morell

A $200 million contract just got awarded to develop software to provide the Department of Defense with all these sock puppets who…

— Michael Hastings

From what type of software could help us make a movie faster to everything else regarding the textures. Some might think, "It's…

— Alex Abreu

While it is becoming increasingly obvious that the fundamental architecture of a system has a profound Influence on the quality of its…

— Lewis M. Branscomb

There's been a lot companies that have shown "zero to one" kind of growth in the computer, internet software age. Facebook and…

— Peter Thiel

Within a few decades, machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence, leading to The Singularity -- technological change so rapid and profound it…

— Ray Kurzweil

Epic has prided itself on providing software directly to customers ever since I started mailing floppy disks in 1991.

— Tim Sweeney

If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.

— Alan Cooper

More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all other causes combined.

— Fred Brooks

I want people to understand the amazing, positive way our software can make leisure time more enjoyable, and work and businesses more…

— Steve Ballmer

There is this thing called the GPL (Gnu Public Licence), which we disagree with... nobody can ever improve the software.

— Bill Gates

I think my software is going to become so ubiquitous, so essential, that if it stops working, there will be riots.

— Michael J. Saylor

Releasing Linux versions has always been a matter of higher code quality, good software architecture, and technical interest for the platform.

— Timothee Besset

If you use a proprietary program or somebody else's web server, you're defenceless. You're putty in the hands of whoever developed that…

— Richard Stallman

A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want.

— Niklaus Wirth

It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not.

— Bill Gates

Fight Features. … The only way to make software secure, reliable, and fast is to make it small.

— Andrew S. Tanenbaum

When we use a language, we should commit ourselves to knowing it, being able to read it, and writing it idiomatically.

— Ron Jeffries

We're not in hardware for hardware's sake. We're in hardware to be able to express all our platform and productivity software in…

— Satya Nadella

The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in the developed…

— Marshall McLuhan

The mind is like a computer. It runs programs. Most of the software has been poorly written. It is written in the…

— Frederick Lenz

I concluded that I know how to start and grow software companies. The worthwhile thing I could do was create livelihoods for…

— Greg Gianforte