Software Quotes

598 quotes by 321 authors

There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer. — Curt Schilling
Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom. — Richard Stallman
In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't. — Richard Stallman
If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won. — Linus Torvalds
Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems. — Linus Torvalds
When you say 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows,' people just stare at you blankly and say 'Hey, I got those with the system,… — Linus Torvalds
See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too. — Linus Torvalds
I don't try to be a threat to MicroSoft, mainly because I don't really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals of Linux and… — Linus Torvalds
Hey, I'm a good software engineer, but I'm not exactly known for my fashion sense. White socks and sandals don't translate to 'good design sense'. — Linus Torvalds
I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things. — Linus Torvalds
Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software. — Linus Torvalds
People enjoy the interaction on the Internet, and the feeling of belonging to a group that does something interesting: that's how some software projects are… — Linus Torvalds
Software patents, in particular, are very ripe for abuse. The whole system encourages big corporations getting thousands and thousands of patents. Individuals almost never get… — Linus Torvalds
There were open source projects and free software before Linux was there. Linux in many ways is one of the more visible and one of… — Linus Torvalds
When it comes to software, I much prefer free software, because I have very seldom seen a program that has worked well enough for my… — Linus Torvalds
Defect-free software does not exist. — Wietse Venema
A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial. — Jimmy Wales
The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be… — Jack Welch
My venture investing career has three phases, all roughly 6-8 years long. The first, at Euclid, was software to Internet. The second, at Flatiron, was… — Fred Wilson
Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence. — Niklaus Wirth

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