Software Quotes

598 quotes by 321 authors

I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement. — Andy Hertzfeld
With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy. — Adam Osborne
Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings. — Niklaus Wirth
If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for… — Eric S. Raymond
We've been in the Mac software business for more than 20 years. And it's been a great business for us. — Scott Erickson
I have this hope that there is a better way. Higher-level tools that actually let you see the structure of the software more clearly will… — Guido van Rossum
It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with… — Nat Friedman
Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and… — Roy Romer
For many people my software is something that you install and forget. I like to keep it that way. — Wietse Venema
Back in my day, I would probe by hand. Now you can get commercial software that does the job for you. — Kevin Mitnick
Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer. — Jamie Zawinski
Ironically, the main task of chess software companies today is to find ways to make the program weaker, not stronger, and to provide enough options… — Garry Kasparov
I regularly read Internet user groups filled with messages from people trying to solve software incompatibility problems that, in terms of complexity, make the U.S.… — Dave Barry
The Internet "browser"... is the piece of software that puts a message on your computer screen informing you that the Internet is currently busy and… — Dave Barry
The future belongs to neither the conduit or content players, but those who control the filtering, searching and sense-making tools we will rely on to… — Paul Saffo
If you want a language that tries to lock up all the sharp objects and fire-making implements, use Pascal or Ada: the Nerf languages, harmless… — Scott Fahlman
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty-a beauty cold and austere ... yet sublimely pure and capable of stern perfection such as… — Bertrand Russell
Good work is always done in defiance of management. — Bob Woodward
We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
...you can look forward to reading - I swear this is true - Microsoft Bob for Dummies. — Josh Quittner

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