Software Quotes

598 quotes by 321 authors

If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful. — Alan Cooper
There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of. — Bill Gates
A: Snowden has enough information to cause more damage to the US government in a minute alone than anyone else has ever had in the… — Glenn Greenwald
I think a lot of great software has been written by people who are scratching a short-term itch, something which has been niggling them for… — Tim Berners-Lee
It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not. — Bill Gates
There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written. — Bill Gates
About three million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they… — Bill Gates
Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and… — Bill Gates
I think I am very goal oriented. I'd like to win the America's cup. I'd like Oracle to be the No 1 software company in… — Larry Ellison
It's my job for Oracle, the number two software company in the world; to become the number one software company in the world. My job… — Larry Ellison
By the time Apple's Macintosh operating system finally falls into the public domain, there will be no machine that could possibly run it. The term… — Lawrence Lessig
The default movement on a software project should be in the direction of taking elements of the software away to make it simpler rather than… — Steve McConnell
Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities. — David Heinemeier Hansson
The information contained in an English sentence or computer software does not derive from the chemistry of the ink or the physics of magnetism, but… — Stephen C. Meyer
I just became one with my browser software. — Bill Griffith
It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow. — Craig Reucassel
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications. — David Parnas
When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause. — Wietse Venema
Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware. — Ken Olsen
Testing by itself does not improve software quality. Test results are an indicator of quality, but in and of themselves, they don't improve it. Trying… — Steve McConnell

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