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Software Quotes by Bill Gates
- If something is expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to…
- Paul and I, we never thought that we would make much money out of the thing. We just loved writing software.
- A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times…
- Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more 'user-friendly'... Their best approach so far has been to take all the old brochures and…
- The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its…
- There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.
- It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not.
- There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written.
- 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…
- 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…
- We're focused on providing innovations in software, driving the continuous improvement for a much better experience, and there's a lot going on here that speaks…
- While Microsoft does not share all of Oracle's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers.
- There is this thing called the GPL (Gnu Public Licence), which we disagree with... nobody can ever improve the software.
- Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.
- Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering. When you finally get done and get to appreciate what you have done it is like…
- Software substitution, whether it's for drivers or waiters or nurses ... it's progressing. ... Technology over time will reduce demand for jobs, particularly at the…
- Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time.
- Analytical software enables you to shift human resources from rote data collection to value-added customer service and support where the human touch makes a profound…
- So we do software for watches, for phones, for TV sets, for cars. And some of these take a long time to catch on.
- There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.
More Software Quotes
- Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they're intended to be used for. — David Byrne
- There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no… — Tony Hoare
- If something is expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you… — Bill Gates
- The business models in enterprise have changed pretty dramatically. A huge problem with enterprise software traditionally has been usually you sell to… — Aaron Levie
- The key idea of agile is that teams essentially manage themselves. ... It works in software, and it turns out that it… — Bruce Feiler
- It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has… — Alan Cooper
- Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing… — Ted Nelson