Software Quotes
598 quotes by 321 authors
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Free open-source software, by its nature, is unlikely to feature secret back doors that lead directly to Langley, Va.
— Evgeny Morozov
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Technology no longer consists just of hardware or software or even services, but of communities. Increasingly, community is a part of technology, a driver of…
— Howard Rheingold
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For Google, the problem with being a free, abundant, and rather infinite set of services is that it's hard to create much of a stir…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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Google did a great job hacking the Web to create search - and then monetizing search with advertising. And Apple did a great job humanizing…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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Technology has moved away from sharing and toward ownership. This suits software and hardware companies just fine: They create new, bloated programs that require more…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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The reason why Apple computers have worked so well over time is that, unlike Microsoft, they don't bend over backward to be compatible with every…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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Whether it's watching a $4,000 laptop fall off the conveyor belt at airport security, contending with a software conflict that corrupted your file management system,…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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There's only four things we do better than anyone else: music movies microcode (software) high-speed pizza delivery
— Neal Stephenson
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Imagine a world in which generations of human beings come to believe that certain films were made by God or that specific software was coded…
— Sam Harris
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That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.
— Larry Niven
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Superstar lawyers and math whizzes and software entrepreneurs appear at first blush to lie outside ordinary experience. But they don't. They are products of history…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.
— Bill Gates
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Sometimes at night I worry about TAMMY. I worry that she might get tired of it all. Tired of running at sixty-six terahertz, tired of…
— Charles Yu
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A brilliant author or businesswoman or senator or software engineer is brilliant only in tiny bursts. The rest of the time, they’re doing work that…
— Seth Godin
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You haven’t experienced awkwardness until you’ve seen a three-million-dollar piece of software cry.
— Charles Yu
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It wasn't an excuse. It was a fact. He'd had to make his way alone, and no one—not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit.
— Neal Stephenson
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WordPress.com is the only service of its kind that not only lets you export your data, but gives you an open source package you can…
— Matt Mullenweg
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Historically, software for business was seen as unsexy because the products were seen as so poor - they provided such a poor user experience.
— Justin Rosenstein
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There are lots of examples of routine, middle-skilled jobs that involve relatively structured tasks, and those are the jobs that are being eliminated the fastest.…
— Erik Brynjolfsson
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