Software Quotes

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Writing non-free software is not an ethically legitimate activity, so if people who do this run into trouble, that's good! All businesses based on non-free… — Richard Stallman
Paying isnâ€™t wrong, and being paid isnâ€™t wrong. Trampling other peopleâ€™s freedom and community is wrong, so the free software movement aims to put an… — Richard Stallman
A hacker is someone who enjoys playful clevernessâ€”not necessarily with computers. The programmers in the old MIT free software community of the 60s and 70s… — Richard Stallman
Every decision a person makes stems from the person's values and goals. People can have many different goals and values; fame, profit, love, survival, fun,… — Richard Stallman
To create a usable piece of software, you have to fight for every fix, every feature, every little accommodation that will get one more person… — Dave Winer
Cooperation is just like two pagodas - one hardware and one software. Combined, we can take the leadership position in the world. — Wen Jiabao
The ever-growing size of software applications is what makes Moore's Law possible: 'If we hadn't brought your computer to its knees, why would you go… — Nathan Myhrvold
In the next 10 years, data science and software will do more for medicine than all of the biological sciences together. — Vinod Khosla
The American Dream is one of the greatest ideas in the history of human achievement . . . It thrives today in an age when… — Dan Rather
Grammar Checker â€“ A software program that is not needed by those who know grammar and virtually useless for those who donâ€™t. — Richard Turner
There are thousands of ways to mess up or damage a software projects, and only a few ways to do them well — Capers Jones
It's hard to propose a $100 laptop for a world community of kids and then not say in the same breath that you're going to… — Nicholas Negroponte
I think that the most beautiful thing lately hasn't been in hardware or software per se but collaboration - the idea behind Napster, which uses… — Steven Levy
Limit use of shareware and public domain software to systems without fixed disks. If you do use them on fixed disks, allocate separate subdirectories... Public… — John McAfee
Now, you can just get a laptop, get some software, put a microphone on it and make a record. You have to know how to… — Roger McGuinn
For whatever reason somebody can be convinced to buy a PC, it opens up a whole new market for all of us in the software… — Kevin O'Leary
I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business in software, technology… — Aaron Levie
By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity. — Oren Peli
At Microsoft, the magic of software is used to take on very interesting challenges. — Jeff Raikes
As the web becomes more and more of a part of our every day lives, it would be a horrible tragedy if it was locked… — Matt Mullenweg

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