Software Quotes

598 quotes by 321 authors

We are so obsessed with the Net and technology that we forget the message... We imagine to be able to do anything, and our software… — Neville Brody
Software production is like any other production the preceded it, no raw materials are required, no time is required and no effort is required, you… — John McAfee
Continuous Integration is a software development practice where members of a team integrate their work frequently, usually each person integrates at least daily - leading… — Martin Fowler
Never in the annals of software engineering was so much owed by so many to so few lines of code — Martin Fowler
I really think it is amazing that people actually buy software. — Bill Budge
My own personal dream is that the majority of the web runs on open source software. — Matt Mullenweg
I believe that software, and in fact entire companies, should be run in a way that assumes that the sum of the talent of people… — Matt Mullenweg
Elegance? It may seem odd to non-scientists, but there is an aesthetic in software as there is in every other area of intellectual endeavour. Truly… — John Naughton
What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time? — James Alan Gardner
There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it. — Jim Allchin
Open source is an intellectual-property destroyer, I can't imagine something that could be worse than this for the software business and the intellectual-property business. — Jim Allchin
Like many older fans of Free Software and Open Source, I have discovered that it is really only free in the sense that the time… — Erik Naggum
I was trying to figure out what to do next, I'd been accumulating ideas for productivity tools - software people could use every day, particularly… — Mitchell Kapor
Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists. — Wietse Venema
This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works… — Wietse Venema
However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that… — Wietse Venema
In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in… — Wietse Venema
I want to avoid locking people into solutions that work only with Postfix. People should have a choice in what software they want to use… — Wietse Venema
Like all software, Qmail can survive only when it keeps up with changing requirements. — Wietse Venema
My reply is: the software has no known bugs, therefore it has not been updated. — Wietse Venema

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