Software Quotes

598 quotes by 321 authors

Qmail out of the box works fine, so people will want to use it regardless of licensing restrictions, even when the software does not ship… — Wietse Venema
The Postfix security model is based on keeping software simple and stupid. — Wietse Venema
The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems. — Wietse Venema
Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting. — Wietse Venema
It's time to re-appreciate the original software: paper. — Dale Dauten
Our biological body itself is a form of hardware that needs re-programming through tantra like a new spiritual software which can release or unblock its… — Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
Sharing the code just seems like The Right Thing to Do, it costs us rather little, but it benefits a lot of people in sometimes… — John Carmack
Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and… — Roberta Williams
The NeXT purchase is too little too late. The Apple of the past was an innovative company that used software and hardware technology together to… — Nathan Myhrvold
Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container. — Nathan Myhrvold
Red Carpet Enterprise has been really well received since one guy can install it in about an hour, and it makes it trivial to deal… — Nat Friedman
Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement. — Richard Stallman
Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria. — Richard Stallman
Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Alliance. — Richard Stallman
If in my lifetime the problem of non-free software is solved, I could perhaps relax and write software again. But I might instead try to… — Richard Stallman
Today many people are switching to free software for purely practical reasons. That is good, as far as it goes, but that isn't all we… — Richard Stallman
To be able to choose between proprietary software packages is to be able to choose your master. Freedom means not having a master. And in… — Richard Stallman
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see… — Alan Perlis
I'm not a Luddite completely; I believe in refrigerators to cool my martinis, and washing machines because I hate to see women smacking their laundry… — Studs Terkel
In 1970, Americans spent about $6 billion on fast food; in 2000, they spent more than $110 billion. Americans now spend more money on fast… — Eric Schlosser

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