As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it. — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost. — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
Constrain the user's expectations to match the abilities of the software. — Bruce Tognazzini Copy Share Image
Solving a problem simply means representing it so as to make the solution transparent. — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing… — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
Software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
I've always been obsessed with electronics and using computers and software. It's always been part of my vernacular. — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
Cooperation is just like two pagodas - one hardware and one software. Combined, we can take the leadership position in the world. — Wen Jiabao Copy Share Image
Software patents are dangerous to software developers because they impose monopolies on software ideas. — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
I like my flight sims because I can set up a very robust joystick setup and my head tracking software. — Thomas Middleditch Copy Share Image
Software is like gardening - one day I'll go behind the shed and clean up. But if nobody ever goes there, does… — Mike Krieger Copy Share Image
'Authoring tools' are terrible; there is almost no software that can create closed captions for media players. And of course there is… — Joe Clark Copy Share Image
I can do some vocals in England; I can come across to LA You can do various versions - replace this, replace… — Roland Orzabal Copy Share Image
I did software development for a while, and I also spent several years directing a nonprofit in San Francisco that did computer… — David Autor Copy Share Image
Thus it is no longer a Caesar or a Napoleon who decides on the fate of any particular war but a piece… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Writing non-free software is not an ethically legitimate activity, so if people who do this run into trouble, that's good! All businesses… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of… — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty-a beauty cold and austere ... yet sublimely pure and capable of stern… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
In those days [batch processing] programmers never even documented their programs, because it was assumed that nobody else would ever use them.… — Robert Fano Copy Share Image
To treat programming scientifically, it must be possible to specify the required properties of programs precisely. Formality is certainly not an end… — Jim Horning Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Many rookie software managers think that they can "motivate" their programmers to work faster by giving them nice, "tight" (unrealistically short) schedules.… — Joel Spolsky Copy Share Image
Software is inherently complicated. If you say to somebody I want an airline reservation system, to really say what you want in… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If you are a professional writer - i.e., if someone else is getting paid to worry about how your words are formatted… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think one of the both liberating and terrifying prospects from synthetic biology for example is that you are going to have… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings. — Niklaus Wirth Copy Share Image
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