Brain Quote by Eric S. Raymond

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

Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities.

— David Heinemeier Hansson

When done well, software is invisible.

— Bjarne Stroustrup

Simply put, when you have very large pieces of software, most of the tools look at the individual lines of code as text. It…

— James Gosling

Software is a reflection of our own mind. And as our software improves it will not only take on the patterns of our minds…

— Frederick Lenz

In short, software is eating the world

— Marc Andreessen

“Transparency once meant being able to "open the hood" to see how things worked. Now, with the Macintosh meaning of transparency dominant in the…

— Sherry Turkle

There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it.

— Jim Allchin

No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either.

— Marvin Minsky

Computers in general, and software in particular, are much more difficult than other kinds of technology for most people to grok, and they overwhelm…

— Om Malik

In science, the whole system builds on people looking at other people's results and building on top of them. In witchcraft, somebody had a…

— Linus Torvalds

As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.

— Anonymous