Software famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.
-- Aaron Levie -
As for a picture, if it isn't worth a thousand words, the hell with it.
-- Ad Reinhardt -
With bundled machines you can throw away the hardware and keep the software, and it's still a good buy.
-- Adam Osborne -
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
-- Alan Perlis -
Up to a point, it is better to just let the snags [bugs] be there than to spend such time in design that there are none.
-- Alan Turing -
Fight Features. … The only way to make software secure, reliable, and fast is to make it small.
-- Andrew S. Tanenbaum -
I developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project.
-- Andy Hertzfeld -
I really think it is amazing that people actually buy software.
-- Bill Budge -
I just became one with my browser software.
-- Bill Griffith -
To most Christians, the Bible is like a software license. Nobody actually reads it. They just scroll to the bottom and click 'I Agree'.
-- Bill Maher -
Software as an asset isn't stable over time; it needs to be maintained.
-- Brian Behlendorf -
Constrain the user's expectations to match the abilities of the software.
-- Bruce Tognazzini -
[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]
-- Charles Stross -
It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.
-- Craig Reucassel -
It's time to re-appreciate the original software: paper.
-- Dale Dauten -
I wrote a piece of software in 1998 that created fictional weather.
-- Daniel Suarez -
Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they're intended to be used for.
-- David Byrne -
The only people who have anything to fear from free software are those whose products are worth even less.
-- David F. Emery -
To change the printout of the body, you must learn to rewrite the software of the mind.
-- Deepak Chopra -
... with proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous, but continues to succeed.
-- Dennis Ritchie -
It seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the readability, modifiability, and portability of its software.
-- Dennis Ritchie -
The hardest part of design ... is keeping features out.
-- Donald A. Norman -
The designer of a new kind of system must participate fully in the implementation.
-- Donald Knuth -
Only drug dealers and software companies call their customers 'users'
-- Edward Tufte -
Software engineering is not about right and wrong but only better and worse
-- Ellen Ullman -
Every good work of software starts by scratching a developers personal itch.
-- Eric S. Raymond -
Software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry
-- Eric S. Raymond -
Like many older fans of Free Software and Open Source, I have discovered that it is really only free in the sense that the time you spend on it is worthless.
-- Erik Naggum -
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later
-- Fred Brooks -
The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build.
-- Fred Brooks -
Plan to throw one (implementation) away; you will, anyhow.
-- Fred Brooks -
Experience doesn't necessarily teach anything.
-- Gerald Weinberg -
The amateur software engineer is always in search of magic.
-- Grady Booch -
Technology no longer consists just of hardware or software or even services, but of communities. Increasingly, community is a part of technology, a driver of technology, and an emergent effect of technology.
-- Howard Rheingold -
Structure is translation software for your imagination.
-- James Scott Bell -
Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.
-- Ken Olsen -
Lisp ... made me aware that software could be close to executable mathematics.
-- L Peter Deutsch -
Really great blogs do not take the place of great microprocessors. Great blogs do not replace great software. Lots and lots of blogs does not replace lots and lots of sales.
-- Larry Ellison -
Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.
-- Linus Torvalds -
There is a constant need for new systems and new software.
-- Marc Andreessen -
Never in the annals of software engineering was so much owed by so many to so few lines of code
-- Martin Fowler -
It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.
-- Nat Friedman -
Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container.
-- Nathan Myhrvold -
Software sucks because users demand it to.
-- Nathan Myhrvold -
Then people started using it more and more and it became the most downloaded software on the internet.
-- Niklas Zennstrom -
Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.
-- Niklaus Wirth -
Prolific programmers contribute to certain disaster.
-- Niklaus Wirth -
Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.
-- Niklaus Wirth -
Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings.
-- Niklaus Wirth -
By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.
-- Oren Peli -
I love software, because if you can imagine something, you can build it.
-- Ray Ozzie -
You know, if you were *really* going to starve, you'd be justified in writing proprietary software.
-- Richard Stallman -
Proprietary software tends to have malicious features. The point is with a proprietary program, when the users dont have the source code, we can never tell. So you must consider every proprietary program as potential malware.
-- Richard Stallman -
In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.
-- Richard Stallman -
I discovered shooting and filmmaking around the time all of the software became affordable to anyone with a PC.
-- Seth Gordon -
Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.
-- Steve Jobs -
It's better to wait for a productive programmer to become available than it is to wait for the first available programmer to become productive.
-- Steve McConnell -
Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.
-- Tim Berners-Lee -
Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.
-- Wietse Venema -
Like all software, Qmail can survive only when it keeps up with changing requirements.
-- Wietse Venema -
My reply is: the software has no known bugs, therefore it has not been updated.
-- Wietse Venema -
The Postfix security model is based on keeping software simple and stupid.
-- Wietse Venema -
It turned out that building mobile software was a lot more like building hardware... where you had 1 shot and you had to get it right, right out of the gate.
-- Hosain Rahman -
Being blind, I rely on software that talks to me.
-- Jennifer Rothschild -
PowerPoint is the Rodney Dangerfield of software. It gets no respect.
-- Ken Goldberg -
For whatever reason somebody can be convinced to buy a PC, it opens up a whole new market for all of us in the software business.
-- Kevin O'Leary -
Software−related accidents are usually caused by flawed requirements.
-- Nancy Leveson -
What [software] must not do is not the inverse of what it must do. .
-- Nancy Leveson -
On a strategic level, employers really are behaving stupidly. Look at how they do recruiting: this automated process under which they will publish a job description chock full of so-called "key words", and then have software algorithms that attempt to match applicants to the resumes against those key words. So where in the key word collection do we capture institutional knowledge? No one advertises for that. Of course they don't.
-- Nick Corcodilos -
I am not versed in production software. I have basic knowledge, but it ends there.
-- Young Thug
