Garbage Quote by Boris Beizer

I do read licenses, and they aggravate me, but a computer isn't much good without software. When I need a product, I hold my…

— Barton Gellman

Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities.

— David Heinemeier Hansson

I obviously think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can…

— Linus Torvalds

Some software is actually pretty good, by any standard. Think of the Mars Rovers, Google, and the Human Genome Project. Now, that's quality software!

— Bjarne Stroustrup

I think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can do…

— Linus Torvalds

People will realize that software is not a product; you use it to build a product.

— Linus Torvalds

In short, software is eating the world

— Marc Andreessen

We now know that something between 85 and 90 percent of most software product features are unwanted and unneeded by customers. That is an…

— Steve Blank

High-quality software is not expensive. High-quality software is faster and cheaper to build and maintain than low-quality software, from initial development all the way…

— Capers Jones

Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always…

— Alan Perlis

Proprietary software is an injustice.

— Richard Stallman

Corporations have been killing the risk-taking and exploration that makes software great. They have tried to rip the soul out of development.

— Brian Behlendorf