Software Quotes · Page 12

Our lives and our culture have been significantly changed and improved by hardware, software, and services developed by immigrants.

— Walt Mossberg

I'm always surprised at how many people seem to like reading about what hardware and software I use.

— David Pogue

In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.

— Alan Kay

Then people started using it more and more and it became the most downloaded software on the internet.

— Niklas Zennstrom

For systems in which you already have a lot of hardware and software, change is difficult. That's why apps are so popular.

— Vint Cerf

I got a degree in math, from not a good school in Texas, and then I went to work as a software…

— Shane Carruth

I write and do all my arrangements on my Mac. And um, I use Logic Pro, which is a great software program.

— Wang Leehom

My opinion is that the only two computer companies that are software-driven are Apple and NeXT, and I wonder about Apple.

— Steve Jobs

For instance, in 1999, Bill Gates not only published a new book on work at the speed of thought but also detailed…

— Paul Virilio

I never imagined that the Free Software Movement would spawn a watered-down alternative, the Open Source Movement, which would become so well-known…

— Richard Stallman

The reason why Apple computers have worked so well over time is that, unlike Microsoft, they don't bend over backward to be…

— Douglas Rushkoff

Also, because schools must teach the spirit of goodwill, the habit of helping others around you, every class should have this rule:…

— Richard Stallman

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed, and software has been treated as a form of speech ever since. So if software…

— Laura Sydell

Software unification. So that I no longer care what computing device I pick up, whether it's a laptop or desktop, whether it's…

— David Gelernter

You can drive a car by looking in the rear view mirror as long as nothing is ahead of you. Not enough…

— Bill Joy

Lauren Goode and I have agreed that the next version of the Mac software - all of them are named after places…

— Walt Mossberg

While we bemoan the decline of literacy, computers discount words in favor of pictures and pictures in favor of video. While we…

— David Gelernter

Cloud storage in data centers will utilize the latest developments in physical storage virtualization, deduplication and other methods to make the most…

— Tom Coughlin

Now companies tend to mine gigantic databases for insights into what might happen six months from now. That might always be valuable,…

— Kevin Maney

I went to see the stock exchange when I was 18 years old. I'm not a Wall Street lawyer, I'm a Stanwix…

— Keith Rothfus

A technology becomes truly disruptive when it drives the marginal cost of something that used to be scarce and expensive to approach…

— Geoffrey Moore

In software, consultants sometimes tell you to buy into certain software-development methods to the exclusion of other methods. That’s unfortunate because if…

— Steve McConnell

I thought, 'Okay, what's going to be my edge, and how am I going to define what I'm doing differently?' Once I…

— Trip Hawkins

In 1970, Americans spent about $6 billion on fast food; in 2000, they spent more than $110 billion. Americans now spend more…

— Eric Schlosser

Of all the things you can spend a lot of money on, the only things you expect to fail frequently are software…

— Jaron Lanier

I'm also the chairman of the board of Symantec, which is the world's largest cybersecurity - software cybersecurity company.

— Dan Schulman

It seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the readability, modifiability, and portability of its software.

— Dennis Ritchie

I basically got an education in software on DuPont's money because they were too stubborn to admit that a recession was coming.

— Michael J. Saylor

I prefer software where kids build something and run into problems they have to solve.

— Seymour Papert

Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.

— Wietse Venema

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

— Kevin Mitnick

If you like your remote messaging fat, dumb, and interoperable, you could also look into the SOAP libraries distributed with Ruby.

— Dave Thomas

Excessive or irrational schedules are probably the single most destructive influence in all of software

— Capers Jones

In open-source in general, the power lies in connecting the author of the software directly to users, eliminating the middleman.

— Peter Fenton

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

— Bill Gates

Writing system software is like planning a family.If you make a mistake you have to live with it for 20 years.

— Richard Marshall

Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.

— James Levine

What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time?

— James Alan Gardner

Every big computing disaster has come from taking too many ideas and putting them in one place.

— Gordon Bell

Our mailing lists (and their repeater newsgroups) are only for the purpose of promoting proprietary software.

— Richard Stallman