Software Quotes · Page 10

Correctness is clearly the prime quality. If a system does not do what it is supposed to do, then everything else about…

— Bertrand Meyer

If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.

— Anonymous

Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting.

— Wietse Venema

I've been a software engineer, a novelist, a journalist, and a manager - and managing developers is easily the trickiest thing I've…

— Jon Evans

Everything is going to be connected to cloud and data... All of this will be mediated by software.

— Satya Nadella

There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it.

— Jim Allchin

I believe good software is written by small teams of two, three, or four people interacting with each other at a very…

— John Warnock

Crappy old OSes have value in the basically negative sense that changing to new ones makes us wish we'd never been born.

— Neal Stephenson

I think that the most beautiful thing lately hasn't been in hardware or software per se but collaboration - the idea behind…

— Steven Levy

I was trying to figure out what to do next, I'd been accumulating ideas for productivity tools - software people could use…

— Anonymous

Listen to your customers, but don't always build exactly what they're telling you. This is a really key distinction around building enterprise…

— Aaron Levie

Watching nonprogrammers trying to run software companies is like watching someone who doesn’t know how to surf trying to surf. Even if…

— Joel Spolsky

Real software engineers don't debug programs, they verify correctness. This process doesn't necessarily involve execution of anything on a computer, except perhaps…

— Woody Allen

The idea of free software is that users of computing deserve freedom. They deserve in particular to have control over their computing.…

— Richard Stallman

Good engineering is characterized by gradual, stepwise refinement of products that yields increased performance under given constraints and with given resources.

— Niklaus Wirth

My parents had a software company making children's software for the Apple II+, Commodore 64 and Acorn computers. They hired these teenagers…

— Bre Pettis

There are lots of examples of routine, middle-skilled jobs that involve relatively structured tasks, and those are the jobs that are being…

— Erik Brynjolfsson

"(Big name research firm) says our market will be $50 billion in 2010." Every entrepreneur has a few slides about how the…

— Guy Kawasaki

Sharing the code just seems like The Right Thing to Do, it costs us rather little, but it benefits a lot of…

— John Carmack

The electronics industry expanded rapidly and the seeds for the semiconductor and software revolution were planted. The postwar period also saw the…

— Barry Ritholtz

The software programs that make our body run ... were evolved in very different times. We'd like to actually change those programs.…

— Ray Kurzweil

All of us who attended the meeting - including Microsoft - unanimously agreed that unilaterally extending the Java programming language would hurt…

— James Gosling

More and more major industries are being run on software and delivered as online services—from movies to agriculture to national defense. Many…

— Marc Andreessen

Our TotalGuide Solution can operate on a wide range of the installed base of legacy set-top boxes without requiring material changes to…

— Alfred Amoroso

Enterprise is hard work. You have to integrate the client with the optimized systems of all the servers and software.

— Samuel J. Palmisano

I'm still learning. I've never done a digital project before. And I'm pretty sure I did things to the software that weren't…

— Don Hertzfeldt

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

— Bill Gates

I am a software engineer, a popular public speaker, and an expert in the Unreal engine.

— Brianna Wu

The Adobe flash plug-in is non-free software, and people should not install it, or suggest installing it, or even tell people it…

— Richard Stallman

We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.

— Tim O'Reilly

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

Some software is actually pretty good, by any standard. Think of the Mars Rovers, Google, and the Human Genome Project. Now, that's…

— Bjarne Stroustrup

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

— Edsger Dijkstra

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

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

— Fred Brooks

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

— Charles Stross

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