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Software Quotes by Joel Spolsky
- Good software, like wine, takes time.
- Indeed one of the best ways to deflect attacks is to make it look like they're succeeding. It's the software equivalent of playing dead.
- Watching nonprogrammers trying to run software companies is like watching someone who doesn’t know how to surf trying to surf. Even if he has great…
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- 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
- Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. — Arthur C. Clarke
- 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
- By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware. — Barry Schuler
- Paul and I, we never thought that we would make much money out of the thing. We just loved writing software. — Bill Gates
- If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. — Edsger Dijkstra
- Software sucks because users demand it to. — Nathan Myhrvold
- The most revolutionary aspect of technology is its mobility. Anybody can learn it. It jumps easily over barriers of race and language.… — Freeman Dyson