Computer Quote by Alan Kay

Early on, when software was developed by computer scientists, just people working with computers, people passed around software because that was how you got…

— Tim O'Reilly

Software was the key element that would determine how useable and how broadly applicable the machine was.

— Bill Gates

“It seems to be common, judging from the number of incidents and accidents that have resulted, for software designers to forget that the world…

— Nancy G. Leveson

The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in the developed countries.

— Marshall McLuhan

It used to be the program's purpose to instruct our computers; it became the computer's purpose to execute our programs.

— Edsger Dijkstra

When somebody has learned how to program a computer ... You're joining a group of people who can do incredible things. They can make…

— Tim Berners-Lee

Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.

— Jaan Tallinn

“The rules of software are the same today as they were in 1946, when Alan Turing wrote the very first code that would execute…

— Robert C. Martin

In the beginning, there were Real Programmers.

— Eric S. Raymond

Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.

— Seth Lloyd

Much to the surprise of the builders of the first digital computers, programs written for them usually did not work.

— Rodney Brooks

There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written.

— Bill Gates