Software Quotes

• A good ERP is more than just good software. It involves an institutional commitment to connecting people, processes, and resources. This will be achieved by deploying sound data practice as part of a broader University-wide Web strategy.

  

  James Young Styx
  • Resources
  • Universuty
  • Web Strategy

• I can direct dial today a man my parents warred with. They wanted to kill him, I want to sell software to him.

  

  Brad Templeton
  • Kill
  • Direct
  • My Parents

• To treat programming scientifically, it must be possible to specify the required properties of programs precisely. Formality is certainly not an end in itself. The importance of formal specifications must ultimately rest in their utility -in whether or not they are used to improve the quality of software or to reduce the cost of producing and maintaining software.

  

  Jim Horning
  • Learning
  • Quality
  • Program

• Im a transactional lawyer; I negotiate all types of things, but with a particular focus in software licenses.

  

  Keith Rothfus
  • Focus
  • Lawyer
  • License

• Open source is one of those odd phenomena that crops up from time to time that is good for everybody. The software is invariably good quality, and it's free, so it's ideal for any area that does not convey a competitive advantage.

  

  Steve Howe Yes
  • Time
  • Free
  • Advantage

• The difference between the best worker on computer hardware and the average may be 2 to 1, if you're lucky. With automobiles, maybe 2 to 1. But in software, it's at least 25 to 1. The difference between the average programmer and a great one is at least that. The secret of my success is that we have gone to exceptional lengths to hire the best people in the world. And when you're in a field where the dynamic range is 25 to 1, boy, does it pay off.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Software
  • Programmer
  • Computer hardware

• Software entities (classes, modules, functions, etc.) should be open for extension, but closed for modification.

  

  Bertrand Meyer
  • Software
  • Extension
  • Modification

• The only people who have anything to fear from free software are those whose products are worth even less.

  

  David F. Emery
  • People
  • Products
  • Less

• I was trying to figure out what to do next, I'd been accumulating ideas for productivity tools - software people could use every day, particularly to help organize their lives.

  

  Mitch Kapor
  • Trying
  • Productivity
  • Accumulate

• In the next 10 years, data science and software will do more for medicine than all of the biological sciences together.

  

  Vinod Khosla
  • Together
  • Future
  • Science

• SAP is becoming the standard for business software. Oracle is in a state of chaos.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Business
  • Chaos
  • Becoming

• Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.

  

  Niklaus Wirth
  • Get
  • Software
  • Hardware

• We are still in the infancy of naming what is really happening on software development projects.

  

  Alistair Cockburn
  • Software
  • Happening
  • Infancy

• So we do software for watches, for phones, for TV sets, for cars. And some of these take a long time to catch on.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Software
  • TV
  • Phones

• 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
  • Desires
  • Mistaken
  • Necessities

• A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want.

  

  Niklaus Wirth
  • Software
  • Complexity
  • Users

• Fight Features. … The only way to make software secure, reliable, and fast is to make it small.

  

  Andrew S. Tanenbaum
  • Fight
  • Software
  • Secure

• There are a variety of techniques for breaking software down into pieces and making software development more efficient. Many of these techniques have been sort of... and everybody got excited about but very little benefit was actually derived once the thing was put into practice.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Practice
  • Benefit
  • Techniques

• I believe good software is written by small teams of two, three, or four people interacting with each other at a very high, dense level.

  

  John Warnock
  • People
  • Software
  • Interacting

• However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions.

  

  Wietse Venema
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Conditions

• Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity. ... The geniuses of the computer field, on the the other hand, are the people with the keenest aesthetic senses, the ones who are capable of creating beauty. Beauty is decisive at every level: the most important interfaces, the most important programming languages, the winning algorithms are the beautiful ones.

  

  David Gelernter
  • Language
  • Creating
  • Aesthetic

• Analytical software enables you to shift human resources from rote data collection to value-added customer service and support where the human touch makes a profound difference.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Software
  • Human Resources
  • Data Collection

• I made my money with software - encoded knowledge without which few products and services can exist today - and so it seemed imperative that this would be the field where I would give something back.

  

  Hasso Plattner
  • Money
  • Knowledge
  • Software

• A computer is the most incredible tool we've ever seen. It can be a writing tool, a communications center, a supercalculator, a planner, a filer and an artistic instrument all in one, just by being given new instructions, or software, to work from. There are no other tools that have the power and versatility of a computer.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Work
  • Computer
  • Planner

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