Epic has prided itself on providing software directly to customers ever since I started mailing floppy disks in 1991. — Tim Sweeney Copy Share Image
If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful. — Alan Cooper Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
For a business plan written when the hardware was a wire-wrapped board and the software was three demos on a graphics substrate,… — Chris Espinosa Copy Share Image
You know, if you were *really* going to starve, you'd be justified in writing proprietary software. — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
I have not seen anyone assume that all the citizens of New York are guilty of murder, violence, robbery, perjury, or writing… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
I think managers have realized that most software people are slightly brain damaged, that they're off on their own planets. — Eugene Jarvis Copy Share Image
In the next 10 years, data science and software will do more for medicine than all of the biological sciences together. — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
GNU, which stands for Gnu's Not Unix, is the name for the complete Unix-compatible software system which I am writing so that… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Google did a great job hacking the Web to create search - and then monetizing search with advertising. And Apple did a… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
I love making things, like software, and films, and laughter. And working with Gus Silber, to make the Funny Business book, has… — Ronnie Apteker Copy Share Image
Ghostery lets you spy on the spies in your computer. For each web page you visit, this extension uncloaks some - but… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now… — John Baldacci Copy Share Image
A Wired reader told me once, Get a life, which I read from the back of a yacht in the Aegean, while… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
So what I was essentially doing was, I compromised the confidentiality of their proprietary software to advance my agenda of becoming the… — Kevin Mitnick Copy Share Image
If the DHS insists, as bureaucracies are apt to do, that open-source must be certified via a sanctioned, formal process, it will… — Mark Hall Copy Share Image
With software products, it is usual to find that the software has major 'bugs' and does not work reliably for some users...… — David Parnas Copy Share Image
History is littered with great firms that got killed by disruption. Of course, the personal computer, a technology that first took root… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
A hacker is someone who enjoys playful cleverness—not necessarily with computers. The programmers in the old MIT free software community of the… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
“Trying to improve software quality by increasing the amount of testing is like trying to lose weight by weighing yourself more often.… — Steve McConnell Copy Share Image
The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build the most important function that software builders… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
I am a design chauvinist. I believe that good design is magical and not to be lightly tinkered with. The difference between… — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
The Sketchnote Handbook is neither about sketching nor is it about note taking. It's about receiving and processing the world in a… — Stefan G. Bucher Copy Share Image
You haven’t experienced awkwardness until you’ve seen a three-million-dollar piece of software cry. — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom. — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
I discovered shooting and filmmaking around the time all of the software became affordable to anyone with a PC. — Seth Gordon Copy Share Image
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Singers who are dependent on digital audio pitch correction software cannot last more than two-three songs. — Jeet Gannguli Copy Share Image
Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable. — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
It's hard to read through a book on the principles of magic without glancing at the cover periodically to make sure it… — Bruce Tognazzini Copy Share Image
To be able to choose between proprietary software packages is to be able to choose your master. Freedom means not having a… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
I do read licenses, and they aggravate me, but a computer isn't much good without software. When I need a product, I… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
Software entities (classes, modules, functions, etc.) should be open for extension, but closed for modification. — Bertrand Meyer Copy Share Image
To change the printout of the body, you must learn to rewrite the software of the mind. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
There's a saying in the software design industry: "Good. Fast. Cheap. Pick two." — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
I fundamentally do not believe in the patenting of software. It would be like Shakespeare patenting the tragic love story. — Shiva Ayyadurai Copy Share Image
Java development without a little heresy would be a dull place, and a dangerous one. — Bruce Tate Copy Share Image
