Century Quote by Lawrence Lessig

While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the…

— Lawrence Lessig

The future art historians are going to be software guys who are going to go into the depths of the code to find out…

— Bill Viola

We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.

— Tim O'Reilly

Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a…

— Lawrence Lessig

In those days [batch processing] programmers never even documented their programs, because it was assumed that nobody else would ever use them. Now, however,…

— Robert Fano

Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time.

— Bill Gates

When it comes to music, movies, literature, paintings, and even Bikram yoga, it's pretty easy to have an opinion about whether something has been…

— Sarah Jeong

Much to the surprise of the builders of the first digital computers, programs written for them usually did not work.

— Rodney Brooks

I mean, source code in files; how quaint, how seventies!

— Kent Beck

It's the first time in the history of the world that creatives are also distributors. And that's very profound if you think that up…

— Chase Jarvis

I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer.

— Bill Gates

There is nothing in the programming field more despicable than an undocumented program

— Edward Yourdon