Programming Quote by Stephen O’Grady

“In other words, some of the biggest software firms aren’t considered software firms because they’re making money with software, not from it. Their software…

— Stephen O’Grady

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

“It is a paradox that the economic value of software is falling even as its strategic value rises, and paradoxes are by definition challenging…

— Stephen O’Grady

“The fact is that the majority of software businesses today are leaving money on the table by focusing strictly on the production and delivery…

— Stephen O’Grady

“Software is eating the world”

— Marc Andreessen

In short, software is eating the world

— Marc Andreessen

“So if open source is cannibalizing the commercial software markets, it’s all smooth sailing for those who commercialize open source, right? Well, not exactly.…

— Stephen O’Grady

My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are…

— Marc Andreessen

“Investors are still thinking through the consequences of reinventing the software industry as one with an explicit focus on service rather than closed intellectual…

— Eric S. Raymond

“Since most software industries have relatively low barriers to entry—especially today, when startup costs are lower than ever—it’s practically guaranteed that a competitor will…

— Alex Moazed

Corporations have been killing the risk-taking and exploration that makes software great. They have tried to rip the soul out of development.

— Brian Behlendorf

“The success of these projects and others like them is thanks to developers. The millions of programmers across the world who use, develop, improve,…

— Stephen O’Grady