Software Quotes

598 quotes by 321 authors

Our strategy in dealing with patents in Mono is the same strategy that any other software developer would take. In the event of a patent… — Miguel de Icaza
Early versions of Microsoft Word left a lot to be desired. However, to the company's credit, it quickly learned where Word fell short, made the… — Naveen Jain
Education should not be about building more schools and maintaining a system that dates back to the Industrial Revolution. We can achieve so much more,… — Naveen Jain
Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn. — Steve Jobs
The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don't understand the software parts of it. And so you… — Steve Jobs
You can mass-produce hardware; you cannot mass-produce software - you cannot mass-produce the human mind. — Michio Kaku
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware. — Alan Kay
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but… — Alan Kay
Human beings either function as individuals or as members of a pack. There's a switch inside us, deep in our spirit, that you can turn… — Jaron Lanier
Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable. — Tim Berners-Lee
Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it. — James Levine
For the average home-user, anti-virus software is a must. — Kevin Mitnick
So what I was essentially doing was, I compromised the confidentiality of their proprietary software to advance my agenda of becoming the best at breaking… — Kevin Mitnick
If I say I've got two versions of Word - that old one from 1982 that's perfect, with zero defects; or the new one that's… — Nathan Myhrvold
Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code - with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It's very difficult… — Elon Musk
In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied each other willy-nilly. — Nathan Myhrvold
Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life?… — Nathan Myhrvold
We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software. — Tim O'Reilly
The software program for motherhood is impossible to fully download into the male brain. You give them two tasks and they're like, 'I have to… — Allison Pearson
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm. — Alan Perlis

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