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Software Quotes by Nathan Myhrvold
- Software sucks because users demand it to.
- 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…
- Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container.
- The ever-growing size of software applications is what makes Moore's Law possible: 'If we hadn't brought your computer to its knees, why would you go…
- If I say I've got two versions of Word - that old one from 1982 that's perfect, with zero defects; or the new one that's…
- In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied each other willy-nilly.
- Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life?…
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
- 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