Software Quotes

598 quotes by 321 authors

â€¦ what society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil. Of course, the snake oil has the most impressive names â€” otherwise you would be selling… — Edsger Dijkstra
We know about as much about software quality problems as they knew about the Black Plague in the 1600s. We've seen the victims' agonies and… — Tom Van Vleck
You need to look no further than Apple's iPhone to see how fast brilliantly written software presented on a beautifully designed device with a spectacular… — Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
I don't like creating software anymore. It's too exact. It's like karate; there's no room for error. — John Maeda
Perhaps the worst software technology of all time was the use of physical lines of code [for metrics]. Continued use of this approach, in the… — Capers Jones
Watching nonprogrammers trying to run software companies is like watching someone who doesnâ€™t know how to surf trying to surf. Even if he has great… — Joel Spolsky
One of the ways that Microsoft beat Apple way back in the day was that they were a lot more open; today, in the world… — Jimmy Wales
I love software and I love technology. — Marc Benioff
Biology is a software process. Our bodies are made up of trillions of cells, each governed by this process. You and I are walking around… — Ray Kurzweil
I took a job in the U.S. because I wanted to work on products that would get into end users' hands. In Norway, most of… — Jon Lech Johansen
Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting, drawing, or music, I can… — Yukihiro Matsumoto
I discovered shooting and filmmaking around the time all of the software became affordable to anyone with a PC. — Seth Gordon
After graduation, I took a job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in software development. I don't think I was there more than a month. — John Katzman
A lot of jobs today are being automated; what happens when you extend that concept to very important areas of society like law enforcement? What… — Jose Padilha
There is only one real computer - the universe - whose hardware is made up of non-spatial states of consciousness and software is made up… — Kedar Joshi
We flew down weekly to meet with IBM, but they thought the way to measure software was the amount of code we wrote, when really… — Bill Gates
There are no barriers to entries. Think of this as Linux in terms of software. Anyone can have part of the operating system so long… — Paul Gigot
This is a software-powered world. — Satya Nadella
Software is usually accompanied by documentation in the form of big fat scary manuals that nobody ever reads. In fact, for the past five years… — Dave Barry
The hugely popular Windows 95 operating system revolutionized the software world thanks to its capability of accomplishing the seemingly impossible task of making Bill Gates… — Dave Barry

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