Computers Quote by Niklaus Wirth

Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.

— Niklaus Wirth

Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.

— Niklaus Wirth

If anything, there's a reverse Moore's Law observable in software: As processors become faster and memory becomes cheaper, software becomes correspondingly slower and more…

— Jaron Lanier

It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.

— Anonymous

Computers get better faster than anything else ever.

— Erik Brynjolfsson

A big part of the success of Microsoft was that every year, the chips our software ran on got faster and cheaper. They doubled…

— Paul Allen

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

To me, it looks more or less like the hardware designers have run out of ideas and that they're trying to pass the blame…

— Donald Knuth

Gates has always understood Moore's Law better than anyone else in the industry. If you can make something run at all, get it out…

— Jerry Pournelle

Software is more important than hardware.

— Bill Gates

“Things have gotten faster but the software has gotten slower and buggier in the meantime.”

— Peter Seibel

Make a faster machine and people will flock to inefficient software.

— John C. Dvorak