Software Quotes

598 quotes by 321 authors

Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases. — Norman Ralph Augustine
Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they're intended to be used for. — David Byrne
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. — Arthur C. Clarke
There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the… — Tony Hoare
If something is expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to… — Bill Gates
The business models in enterprise have changed pretty dramatically. A huge problem with enterprise software traditionally has been usually you sell to the customer and… — Aaron Levie
The key idea of agile is that teams essentially manage themselves. ... It works in software, and it turns out that it works with kids. — Bruce Feiler
By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware. — Barry Schuler
Paul and I, we never thought that we would make much money out of the thing. We just loved writing software. — Bill Gates
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. — Edsger Dijkstra
Software sucks because users demand it to. — Nathan Myhrvold
The most revolutionary aspect of technology is its mobility. Anybody can learn it. It jumps easily over barriers of race and language. ... The new… — Freeman Dyson
We're putting all of our energy into making it right. And we have already had several software updates. We've got a huge plan to make… — Tim Cook
A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times… — Bill Gates
Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline. — William J. Clinton
Early on, when software was developed by computer scientists, just people working with computers, people passed around software because that was how you got computers… — Tim O'Reilly
Hardware: where the people in your company's software section will tell you the problem is. Software: where the people in your company's hardware section will… — Dave Barry
I want people to understand the amazing, positive way our software can make leisure time more enjoyable, and work and businesses more successful. — Steve Ballmer
Software companies should take more responsibility for security holes, especially in browsers and e-mail clients. There are some straightforward things the industry should be doing… — Tim Berners-Lee
Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more 'user-friendly'... Their best approach so far has been to take all the old brochures and… — Bill Gates

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