I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things. — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they're intended to be used for. — David Byrne Copy Share Image
It is interesting to come across people who feel that a ghost communicating via a spell-checker is less far-fetched than a software… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial. — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
All programming is maintenance programming, because you are rarely writing original code. — Dave Thomas Copy Share Image
This idea you're going to take a 50-year-old coal miner and turn them into a software engineer is ridiculous. — Ro Khanna Copy Share Image
Patents? Disappointed? Don't think of it that way. Software patents weren't feasible then so we chose not to risk $10,000. — Bob Frankston Copy Share Image
It has occurred to me that if people really knew how software got written, I'm not sure they'd give their money to… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
Really great blogs do not take the place of great microprocessors. Great blogs do not replace great software. Lots and lots of… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
Really successful designs can be created without software produced "special effects." Identities do not NEED bevels, gradations, 3-D imagery, Web 2.Oh-Oh and… — Jeff Fisher Copy Share Image
It is sad that so many designers don't know how to make. CAD software can make a bad design look palatable! It… — Jonathan Ive Copy Share Image
I have this hope that there is a better way. Higher-level tools that actually let you see the structure of the software… — Guido van Rossum Copy Share Image
WordPress.com is the only service of its kind that not only lets you export your data, but gives you an open source… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of… — Wietse Venema Copy Share Image
As every new breed of virus is conceived, created and released into the wild, another small change is made to the anti-virus… — Glenn Turner Copy Share Image
Testing by itself does not improve software quality. Test results are an indicator of quality, but in and of themselves, they don't… — Steve McConnell Copy Share Image
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 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
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
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
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
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
I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work. — Edward Tufte Copy Share Image
Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware. — Barry Schuler Copy Share Image
The single most important thing for any processor is getting adoption by software developers. — Jensen Huang Copy Share Image
Great graphics requires more than just high-performance hardware. Gamers know software is just as important. — Lisa Su Copy Share Image
Many casinos in the United States already use facial recognition software to identify undesirables, apparently with a fair degree of success. — Ronen Bergman Copy Share Image
Even the best planning is not so omniscient as to get it right the first time. — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
You can mass-produce hardware; you cannot mass-produce software - you cannot mass-produce the human mind. — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Hiring people to write code to sell is not the same as hiring people to design and build durable, usable, dependable software. — Larry Constantine Copy Share Image
Find the simplest model that is not a lie is the key to better software design. — David Parnas Copy Share Image
We hope to get to the place where there are thousands of Peugeot cars on the road running nuTonomy software. — Karl Iagnemma Copy Share Image
Corporations have been killing the risk-taking and exploration that makes software great. They have tried to rip the soul out of development. — Brian Behlendorf Copy Share Image
When I was, like, 16, I had, like, my first, like, bit of software and stuff. So then I started, like, making… — Cuco Copy Share Image
If you cannot grok the overall structure of a program while taking a shower, you are not ready to code it. — Richard E. Pattis Copy Share Image
Indian software engineers are the best in the world; even in Silicon Valley, the best software engineers are Indians. — Masayoshi Son Copy Share Image
... with proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous, but continues to succeed. — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
