Proprietary software grew up, starting really in the 1980s, as an alternative and that became the dominant model with the rise of… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Hubble wasn't designed to look at objects in our solar system, but after it was launched, astronomers realized that with just a… — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
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The belief that complex systems require armies of designers and programmers is wrong. A system that is not understood in its entirety,… — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
If anything, there's a reverse Moore's Law observable in software: As processors become faster and memory becomes cheaper, software becomes correspondingly slower… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
If you want to measure social media ROI, stop wasting your time doing software demos and attending webinars. Just figure out what… — Jay Baer Copy Share Image
Apple has always been, and always will be, a hardware-first company. It produces beautiful devices with elegant designs and humane operating-system software. — Om Malik Copy Share Image
Accountants, machinists, medical technicians, even software writers that write the software for 'machines' are being displaced without upscaled replacement jobs. Retrain, rehire… — Bill Gross Copy Share Image
We're trying to make our software available to users in as economically efficient a way as possible. That means distributing the software… — Tim Sweeney Copy Share Image
Pop belonged to more musical people in earlier times, but we've sort of gotten away from that. Now it's software people. I… — Dave Sitek Copy Share Image
I think there are opportunities outside India as well as in India. In fact, some of the largest projects that most Indian… — N. R. Narayana Murthy Copy Share Image
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Elegance? It may seem odd to non-scientists, but there is an aesthetic in software as there is in every other area of… — John Naughton Copy Share Image
When writing gateway software of any kind, take pains to disturb the data stream as little as possible - and never throw… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
Most people assume that once security software is installed, they're protected. This isn't the case. It's critical that companies be proactive in… — Kevin Mitnick Copy Share Image
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Analytical software enables you to shift human resources from rote data collection to value-added customer service and support where the human touch… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
We're focused on providing innovations in software, driving the continuous improvement for a much better experience, and there's a lot going on… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
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I was not in a good space in my life, emotionally particularly, so I needed to do something to recharge my batteries… — Jamie Lidell Copy Share Image
Microsoft does not dominate the software industry by any stretch of the imagination. We have lots of very able competitors who keep… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Education should not be about building more schools and maintaining a system that dates back to the Industrial Revolution. We can achieve… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
Software is usually accompanied by documentation in the form of big fat scary manuals that nobody ever reads. In fact, for the… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
We're not done yet, but two things WordPress has been able to exemplify is that open source can create great user experiences… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
I think a lot of great software has been written by people who are scratching a short-term itch, something which has been… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
I came out of an electronic music scene that based all its music on software. It was a real boys thing, a… — Herbert Copy Share Image
Please don't fall into the trap of believing that I am terribly dogmatical about [the goto statement]. I have the uncomfortable feeling… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
I was really worried about the Windows RT project and these other efforts where Microsoft was creating versions of Windows that would… — Tim Sweeney Copy Share Image
One principle problem of educating software engineers is that they will not use a new method until they believe it works and,… — Watts Humphrey Copy Share Image
Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I figure that since proprietary software developers use copyright to stop us from sharing, we cooperators can use copyright to give other… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
It's clear that other problems such as [...] the domination of business over government, science, thought, and society, are much bigger than… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
Some people, through luck and skill, end up with a lot of assets. If you're good at kicking a ball, writing software,… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The acquisition of Symphony Teleca... gives us immediate scale in software services. With the addition of cloud, mobility, and analytics competencies, we… — Dinesh Paliwal Copy Share Image
I use minimal software to make my music - a wav editor and a calculator for my beats to make sure everything… — Girl Talk Copy Share Image
It's hard to propose a $100 laptop for a world community of kids and then not say in the same breath that… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Nintendo has been a very unique company because it's not just hardware but also one of the major software publishers. Because it… — Satoru Iwata Copy Share Image
Once you have a truly massive amount of information integrated as knowledge, then the human-software system will be superhuman, in the same… — Douglas Lenat Copy Share Image
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