Software Quotes · Page 13

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

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

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

— Satya Nadella

Our vision of what's important is exactly the same today, bringing together the best systems and the best software to empower people…

— Bill Gates

The Very Big Stupid is a thing which breeds by eating The Future. Have you seen it? It sometimes disguises itself as…

— Frank Zappa

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is…

— Bill Gates

Impute People DO judge a book by its cover. We may have the best product, the highest quality, the most useful software…

— Mike Markkula

Our technology is very scalable. Our software can accommodate enormous numbers of clients. It's a marvelous opportunity. We'll keep developing products.

— Jay Chiat

Microsoft has laid down the foundations for next-generation computing and is the founder in terms of providing user-friendly software - thereby increasing…

— Arfa Karim

Most of the software I sell runs on mainframes and supercomputers, and is used by multinational corporations and governments. You may not…

— Frederick Lenz

Ironically, the main task of chess software companies today is to find ways to make the program weaker, not stronger, and to…

— Garry Kasparov

Obviously solving the education problem is big and complex, and there's already so many failings, but coding is the new fluency. This…

— Alexis Ohanian

If you are a professional writer - i.e., if someone else is getting paid to worry about how your words are formatted…

— Neal Stephenson

These days, I find it harder to listen to really trebly lo-fi recordings. At the same time, without the old limitations, these…

— Michael Dumontier

A computer is the most incredible tool we've ever seen. It can be a writing tool, a communications center, a supercalculator, a…

— Steve Jobs

“Many rookie software managers think that they can "motivate" their programmers to work faster by giving them nice, "tight" (unrealistically short) schedules.…

— Joel Spolsky

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

— Bill Gates

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

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'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

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

— Samuel J. Palmisano

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

— Brianna Wu

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

— Bill Gates

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

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

It's called 'reading'. It's how people install new software into their brains.

— Scott A. Becker

SAP is becoming the standard for business software. Oracle is in a state of chaos.

— Bill Vaughan

A refund for defective software might be nice, except it would bankrupt the entire software industry in the first year.

— Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Software and hardware design is less different than software designers think, but more different than hardware designers think.

— Fred Brooks