Software Quotes

598 quotes by 321 authors

For me, it always comes back to the blogger, the author, the designer, the developer. You build software for that core individual person, and then… — Matt Mullenweg
Modern records are all made with virtually identical gear, software plug-ins and everything. Everybody wants everything to sound like the last thing that was popular… — Dweezil Zappa
What we believe is going to be very important is the delivery of traditional software and services and hardware over the Net. That's a form… — Lou Gerstner
Our mailing lists (and their repeater newsgroups) are only for the purpose of promoting proprietary software. — Richard Stallman
Cloud storage in data centers will utilize the latest developments in physical storage virtualization, deduplication and other methods to make the most effective use of… — Tom Coughlin
Software engineering is not about right and wrong but only better and worse — Ellen Ullman
It seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the readability, modifiability, and portability of its software. — Dennis Ritchie
Indeed one of the best ways to deflect attacks is to make it look like they're succeeding. It's the software equivalent of playing dead. — Joel Spolsky
Free software is part of a broader phenomenon, which is a shift toward recognizing the value of shared work. Historically, shared stuff had a very… — Mark Shuttleworth
Find the simplest model that is not a lie is the key to better software design. — David Parnas
When someone builds a bridge, he uses engineers who have been certified as knowing what they are doing. Yet when someone builds you a software… — David Parnas
Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could solve problems in many different domains. That just turned out… — Howard Gardner
Apple already had everyone's billing information from iTunes... you could buy things just by typing in your password... That, for the first time, brought very,… — Marco Arment
I think we're proving ourselves as we go along. The past several months our strategy has been evolutionary - making maximum advantage of our client… — James L. Barksdale
We can collaborate with a Netscape employee or partner who's halfway around the world. We can distribute information and software to customers and shareholders, and… — James L. Barksdale
The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content. — Marc Andreessen
On the back end, software programming tools and Internet-based services make it easy to launch new global software-powered start-ups in many industries - without the… — Marc Andreessen
I started NetSuite. NetSuite was my idea. I called up Evan Goldberg and said, 'We're going to do ERP on the Internet, software-as-a-service.' Six months… — Larry Ellison
The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for. By all means, let them send… — Larry Wall
More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all other causes combined. — Fred Brooks

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