Software and digital devices are imbued with the values of their creators. — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in the developed… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
When we use a language, we should commit ourselves to knowing it, being able to read it, and writing it idiomatically. — Ron Jeffries Copy Share Image
We're not in hardware for hardware's sake. We're in hardware to be able to express all our platform and productivity software in… — Satya Nadella Copy Share Image
It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Fight Features. … The only way to make software secure, reliable, and fast is to make it small. — Andrew S. Tanenbaum Copy Share Image
You get the software you pay for. In every sense. To the nth degree. That's the way the world works. — Dave Winer Copy Share Image
I concluded that I know how to start and grow software companies. The worthwhile thing I could do was create livelihoods for… — Greg Gianforte Copy Share Image
For many people my software is something that you install and forget. I like to keep it that way. — Wietse Venema Copy Share Image
The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project's outcome; it is to determine whether a project's targets are… — Steve McConnell Copy Share Image
You can go overboard in how quickly you might expect new technologies to transform people's lives. But I very much believe the… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The two [separate] UIs are both incredibly simple and don't even look like computer programs; they barely need menus. [When combined, they]… — Havoc Pennington Copy Share Image
[Apple and RIM] are probably restricted, in some sense, to a certain maximum. ... If you want to reach more people than… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more 'user-friendly'... Their best approach so far has been to take all the… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I've never felt really creative or intuitive using software. I like paper and pens and paint. I need to angle real lights… — Don Hertzfeldt Copy Share Image
Think of how Wikipedia works, how Amazon harnesses user annotation on its site, the way photo-sharing sites like Flickr are bleeding out… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
“I vividly remember going to Google Docs, opening a document at the same time other students were working on it, and seeing… — Ian Lamont Copy Share Image
Every computer divides itself into its hardware and its software, the machine host to its algorithm, the human being to his mind.… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
Online education is pretty special for two reasons. One is that you can get the very best lecture in the world and… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
There's a strong distinction to be made between dry code smart contacts and wet code's physical law. So law is based on… — Nick Szabo Copy Share Image
In science, the whole system builds on people looking at other people's results and building on top of them. In witchcraft, somebody… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
When you develop software, the people who write the software, the developers are the key group but the testers also play an… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
It's simply unrealistic to depend on secrecy for security in computer software. You may be able to keep the exact workings of… — Whitfield Diffie Copy Share Image
...One of the most important lessons, perhaps, is the fact that SOFTWARE IS HARD. From now on I shall have significantly greater… — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
We know about as much about software quality problems as they knew about the Black Plague in the 1600s. We've seen the… — Tom Van Vleck Copy Share Image
For most software startups, this translates to keep growing. For hardware startups, it translates to don't let your ship date slip. — Sam Altman Copy Share Image
The mind is like a computer. It runs programs. Most of the software has been poorly written. It is written in the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
So we do software for watches, for phones, for TV sets, for cars. And some of these take a long time to… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I never could have written the screenplay because I would have been forced to learn new software and I can't learn one… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Once GNU is written, everyone will be able to obtain good system software free, just like air. — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria. — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
My reply is: the software has no known bugs, therefore it has not been updated. — Wietse Venema Copy Share Image
Microsoft develops a lot of software that allows people to realize their potential. — Arfa Karim Copy Share Image
Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation. — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
Im a transactional lawyer; I negotiate all types of things, but with a particular focus in software licenses. — Keith Rothfus Copy Share Image
An organization that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only. — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
Software eventually and necessarily gained the same respect as any other discipline. — Margaret H. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“software alone is a commodity. There is nothing stopping anyone from copying the feature set, making it better, cheaper, and faster.” — Alex Moazed Copy Share Image
Every young person gets so excited about new software packages and new technology. — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
A lot of the parallel processing software we're currently developing for supercomputers is tantric. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
![“The two [separate] UIs are both incredibly simple and don't even look like computer programs; they barely need menus. [When combined, they] suddenly look like software.” quote by Havoc Pennington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/16f/havoc-pennington-72138_computer_the-two-separate-uis-are-both-incredibly_3056845.jpg)
![“[Apple and RIM] are probably restricted, in some sense, to a certain maximum. ... If you want to reach more people than that, you sort-of have to separate the hardware and the software issue.” quote by Steve Ballmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a34/steve-ballmer-3273_apple_apple-and-rim-are-probably-restricted-in_174230.png)
![“I've never felt really creative or intuitive using software. I like paper and pens and paint. I need to angle real lights on my artwork and work with my hands and build props. Computers just take all that fun out of it [animation drawing].” quote by Don Hertzfeldt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/134/don-hertzfeldt-16260_angle_i-ve-never-felt-really-creative-or-intui_2968544.jpg)
