Software Quotes

598 quotes by 321 authors

A Wired reader told me once, Get a life, which I read from the back of a yacht in the Aegean, while eating fresh sea… — Nicholas Negroponte
The Very Big Stupid is a thing which breeds by eating The Future. Have you seen it? It sometimes disguises itself as a good-looking quarterly… — Frank Zappa
Some cynical people think that every activity must revolve around the mighty dollar, and that anyone saying otherwise is just attempting to delude the public.… — John Carmack
As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it. — Ad Reinhardt
...your Web browser is Ronald Reagan. — Neal Stephenson
One of the great skills in using any language is knowing what not to use, what not to say. There's that simplicity thing again. — Ron Jeffries
Crappy old OSes have value in the basically negative sense that changing to new ones makes us wish we'd never been born. — Neal Stephenson
...wisdom is in large part the knowledge of how to avoid doing dumb things, and thus grows globally as a function of the published inventory… — Tim Bray
Patents? Disappointed? Don't think of it that way. Software patents weren't feasible then so we chose not to risk $10,000. — Bob Frankston
I love software, because if you can imagine something, you can build it. — Ray Ozzie
If you love a medium made of software, there's a danger that you will become entrapped in someone else's recent careless thoughts. Struggle against that. — Jaron Lanier
As the commercial confrontation between [free software] and software-that's-a-product becomes more fierce, patent law's going to be the terrain on which a big piece of… — Eben Moglen
Software entities (classes, modules, functions, etc.) should be open for extension, but closed for modification. — Bertrand Meyer
Inadequate use of usability engineering methods in software development projects have been estimated to cost the US economy about $30 billion per year in lost… — Jakob Nielsen
Constrain the user's expectations to match the abilities of the software. — Bruce Tognazzini
Ironically, the thing that will likely make the least improvement in the ease of use of software-based products is new technology. There is little difference… — Alan Cooper
Progress in computer science is made with the distribution of revolutionary software systems and the publication of revolutionary books. We don't need a fancy information… — Philip Greenspun
If you want to measure social media ROI, stop wasting your time doing software demos and attending webinars. Just figure out what you want to… — Jay Baer
The software programs that make our body run ... were evolved in very different times. We'd like to actually change those programs. One little software… — Ray Kurzweil
Fight Features. â€¦ The only way to make software secure, reliable, and fast is to make it small. — Andrew S. Tanenbaum

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