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Software is described as a mix of art and engineering. The quotes stress that software drives constant improvement, can be unpredictable, and often matters more than hardware. They also note that thorough testing, competition, and comprehensive design can save money and keep developers alert.

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Software is more important than hardware.

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Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

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There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.

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Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time.

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Software was the key element that would determine how useable and how broadly applicable the machine was.

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DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.

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

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

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So we do software for watches, for phones, for TV sets, for cars. And some of these take a long time to…

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While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software…

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The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC.

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If something's expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want…

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Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to…

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Software, by being comprehensive, can save costs by avoiding add-on pieces of software. We can save money in terms of speed of…

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I think there certainly was a milestone in the '90s with regards to the Internet achieving critical mass. There were several magical…

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Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to…

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You can go overboard in how quickly you might expect new technologies to transform people's lives. But I very much believe the…

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Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more 'user-friendly'... Their best approach so far has been to take all the…

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We decided that we wanted our developers to come with clear minds, not polluted by some other approach, to learn the way…

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Software is definitely engineering. It's different in that we take on novel tasks every time. It's not like building a certain bridge…

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Software is inherently complicated. If you say to somebody I want an airline reservation system, to really say what you want in…

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Software substitution, whether it's for drivers or waiters or nurses ... it's progressing. ... Technology over time will reduce demand for jobs,…

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Online education is pretty special for two reasons. One is that you can get the very best lecture in the world and…

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When you develop software, the people who write the software, the developers are the key group but the testers also play an…

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Finding information is either a software question or a question of how much information is online.

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

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

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The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their…

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Certainly there's a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of…

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The most important thing was the creation of a... a standard, where hundreds of companies build hardware that can all run the…

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I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.

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Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software,…

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Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole.

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When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the…

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Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

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More and more software would just increase the number of tasks that the computer would help solve.

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A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door…

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In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organization to operate more effectively.

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There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written.

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Paul and I, we never thought that we would make much money out of the thing. We just loved writing software.

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Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering.

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Software is more important than hardware.

Talking to mothers, always brings it home because they're so anxious to do everything they can for their kids and so tragic for them.