Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as… — Brian Kernighan Copy Share Image
Asked about the fact that Apple's iTunes software for Windows computers was extremely popular, Jobs joked, 'It's like giving a glass of… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
There's a tendency to make jazzy educational software that's very uniform and therefore just like school. I'd like to see a company… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
I started NetSuite. NetSuite was my idea. I called up Evan Goldberg and said, 'We're going to do ERP on the Internet,… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
What's needed now are software technologies that interconnect computing systems, people and data to produce more rapid answers to the questions of… — Bob Muglia Copy Share Image
It became clear to me by 1984 that Microsoft was likely going to be the big winner in the PC software apps… — Mitch Kapor Copy Share Image
For music, unlike a $500 software program, people are paying a buck or two a song, and it's those dollars and pennies… — Hilary Rosen Copy Share Image
I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So,… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
People are building the software and so having the pieces be such that a single person understands all the tradeoffs and everything… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
In order for us to deliver this we have to integrate the big-screen capability, the PC capability, and the Internet experience. This… — Paul Otellini Copy Share Image
When we see companies who are in complicit relationships with China, for example, making huge profits by providing China with the very… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason - including… — William Wulf Copy Share Image
There are "extremists" in the free software world, but that's one major reason why I don't call what I do "free software"… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Software is different than other products um, partly because it's, it's not physical and, and partly because of its complexity. You can… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
There are a variety of techniques for breaking software down into pieces and making software development more efficient. Many of these techniques… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Requirement completeness: Requirements are sufficient to distinguish the desired behavior of the software from that of any other undesired program that might… — Nancy Leveson Copy Share Image
Before Ruby on Rails, web programming required a lot of verbiage, steps and time. Now, web designers and software engineers can develop… — Bruce Perens Copy Share Image
Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
Automation is no longer just a problem for those working in manufacturing. Physical labor was replaced by robots; mental labor is going… — Andrew Yang Copy Share Image
The founding fathers were great entrepreneurs. They shipped something akin to a software product: the first version of the 'ideological operating system'… — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
The general problem with ambitious systems is complexity. [...] it is important to emphasize the value of simplicity and elegance, for complexity… — Fernando J. Corbato Copy Share Image
“if there’s any software you need to be comfortable with, it’s your antivirus software. It’s a lot like automobile tires or insurance:… — Peter H. Gregory Copy Share Image
No matter how slick the demo is in rehearsal, when you do it in front of a live audience, the probability of… — Mark Gibbs Copy Share Image
Poor management can increase software costs more rapidly than any other factor. Particularly on large projects, each of the following mismanagement actions… — Barry Boehm Copy Share Image
About three million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
What we believe is going to be very important is the delivery of traditional software and services and hardware over the Net.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6%… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
All the songs were written on guitar and then put into the computer, where I played around with different sounds I was… — Jamie Woon Copy Share Image
Apple is the only company that can take hardware, software, and services and integrate those into an experience that's an 'aha' for… — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
My first job after college was at Magic Quest, an educational software startup company where I was responsible for writing the content.… — Susan Wojcicki Copy Share Image
Simply put, when you have very large pieces of software, most of the tools look at the individual lines of code as… — James Gosling Copy Share Image
I believe that software, and in fact entire companies, should be run in a way that assumes that the sum of the… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
Now, you can just get a laptop, get some software, put a microphone on it and make a record. You have to… — Roger McGuinn Copy Share Image
...heavy investments in information technology have delivered disappointing results - largely because companies tend to use technology to mechanize old ways of… — Michael Martin Hammer Copy Share Image
Software is a reflection of our own mind. And as our software improves it will not only take on the patterns of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You can have an Apple in the phone business, or a RIM, and they can do very well, but when 1.3 billion… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The hardware and the software will come from Silicon Valley. But the watch case, the dial, the design, the idea, the crown,… — Jean-Claude Biver Copy Share Image
When we shipped 'Borderlands 2,' we didn't ship it with a plan of how the level cap was going to increase. We… — Randy Pitchford Copy Share Image
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